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The Golden Butterfly choose

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[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 94: Scrimmy knew it was all up.
at all up, adj.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 88: I have made a contemptible ass of myself on several occasions.
at ass, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 3: A little too long of leg, a little too narrow in the beam.
at beam, n.1
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 60: We had a blazing row.
at blazing, adj.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 193: You may scheme for it like a Boss in a whisky-ring.
at boss, n.2
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 29: Did you notice the young gentleman in the box?
at box, n.1
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 79: I will back a first-class British subject for bubbling around against all humanity.
at bubble around (v.) under bubble, v.2
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 74: Stumpin’ offers amusement [...] but it doesn’t pay unless you get more than one brace of niggers and a bubbly-jock to listen.
at bubbly jock, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 193: Lyin’ out among the flowers while the bees were bummin’ around.
at bum, v.3
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 8: The Roper or Banco Steerer [...] will strip you so clean that there won’t be left the price of a four-cent paper.
at bunco steerer (n.) under bunco, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 208: I call this a burning shame.
at burning, adj.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 224: I hold twenty thousand shares. If I sell out, that company will bust up.
at bust, v.1
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 88: She and I carried on for a whole season. People talked. Then she got engaged to her present husband.
at carry on, v.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 92: They’re a two-cent lot.
at two-cent, adj.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 22: There’s not a dollar left – nary a red cent.
at red cent, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 93: We won’t chalk it down to you, nor never ask you for the money.
at chalk, v.2
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 95: The only one? Not by a long chalk.
at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 206: ‘I am not,’ he said, ‘going to orate. You did not come here, I guess, to hear me pay out chin music.’.
at chin music, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 193: You may grub for money like a Chinee.
at Chinee, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 77: Next to umlimited chucking of his own money, the youthful Englishman would like – what he never gets – the unlimited chucking of other people’s.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 80: That young lady discovers that she is not likely to be cracked up as a vocaller.
at crack up, v.1
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 79: There shall be no cutting up of bad books to show smart writing.
at cut up, v.1
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 255: Joseph beat the tattoo on his chair.
at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 82: I spent most of the dollars, and thought I had better dig out for a new location.
at dig out, v.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 17: Since I’ve been in this doggoned country I’ve had one or two near things.
at doggone, adj.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 94: Huggins crept in quiet, and dropped a bullet through his neck before he had time to turn.
at drop, v.3
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 41: ‘I can’t fix it,’ he groaned. ‘I can’t fix it anyhow.’.
at fix, v.1
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly II 86: The sharpest of the reporters had his flimsy up in a minute, and took notes of the proceedings.
at flimsy, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 49: The girl [...] set before him a ‘four’ of brandy and the cold water.
at four, n.
[UK] Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly III 50: Eton boys no longer fight, because they funk one another.
at funk, v.2
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