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The Life of General F. Marion choose

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[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 150: His wife, in sense and domestic virtues, was as an Abigail.
at abigail, n.1
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 166: I’ll be blamed if you do not get yourselves into business pretty; for the town is full of red coats.
at blame, v.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 50: Can any honest man believe that this same Captain Johnson, who had been, as Paddy says, ‘sticking the blarney into me at that rate,’ could have been such a scoundrel [...] and try all in his power to trick me.
at blarney, n.1
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 35: He is a fine, honest, good-natured old buck.
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 232: The tories were all hand-cuffed two and two, and confined together under a centinel, in what was called a bull pen, made of pine trees, cut down so judgematically, as to form by their fall, a pen or enclosure.
at bullpen, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 10: Well, charmer, what’s that?
at charmer, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 224: The enemy, seeing the approach of our buccaneers [...] all at once cut loose upon them with a thundering clap.
at cut loose, v.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 165: ‘Why where are you going this course!’ ‘Going, old daddy! why, to the devil, perhaps.’.
at daddy, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: By jing! I should like it proper well!
at jings!, excl.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 207: The rest, by giving good leg-bail, made their escape.
at leg bail (n.) under leg, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 75: ‘Here now,’ I said to myself, ‘is a parcel of people, meaning my poor father and his friends.’.
at parcel, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 85: I feel both peckish and weary.
at peckish, adj.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: By jing! I should like it proper well!
at proper, adv.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: They have got a tarnal nation sight of pistols!
at sight, n.2
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 35: An ugly, cross, knock-knee’d hook-nosed son of a b-t-h!
at sonofabitch, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 168: Oh no, massa! dey burn de barn, dat sure ting!
at sure thing, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: They have got a tarnal nation sight of pistols!
at tarnal, adj.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 165: The chat went round very briskly, and dram after dram, the brandy until the tickler was drained to the bottom.
at tickler, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 197: Clark and his advance wheeled about [...] giving their horses ‘the timber.’.
at timber, n.
[US] Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 177: A fist full of yellow boys!
at yellow boy (n.) under yellow, adj.
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