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[UK] Fielding Lottery 2: Ah, think, my lord! how I should grieve to see your lordship bang’d.
at bang, v.1
[UK] Fielding Lottery 28: Damn you, Fool, Idiot. – Blood! Blunders! Blanks! Bubbles!
at bubble, n.1
[UK] Fielding Lottery 7: If I can but nick this time, Ame’s-Ace, I defy thee.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Fielding Lottery 18: Is this the Fellow for whom I am unknown? this Powder-Puff – Have you surrender’d to him in one Week, what I have been Ages in soliciting? [...] What can you see in this walking Perfume-shop, that can charm you?.
at powder puff, n.
[UK] Fielding Lottery 23: Ah, who cou’d see, / On Tyburn Tree / You swinging in the Air.
at Tyburn tree (n.) under Tyburn, n.
[UK] W.E. Woodward Lottery 200: He’s a catbird, all right. He’s a leader in the advertising field.
at catbird, n.
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