1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 150: His wife, in sense and domestic virtues, was as an Abigail.at abigail, n.1
1809 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.
1809 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
1809 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
1809 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.
1809 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.
1809 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.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: By jing! I should like it proper well!at jings!, excl.
1809 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.
1809 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.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 85: I feel both peckish and weary.at peckish, adj.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: By jing! I should like it proper well!at proper, adv.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: They have got a tarnal nation sight of pistols!at sight, n.2
1809 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.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 168: Oh no, massa! dey burn de barn, dat sure ting!at sure thing, n.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 124: They have got a tarnal nation sight of pistols!at tarnal, adj.
1809 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.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 197: Clark and his advance wheeled about [...] giving their horses ‘the timber.’.at timber, n.
1809 Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 177: A fist full of yellow boys!at yellow boy (n.) under yellow, adj.