1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 85: ‘It’s that scarlet chap, Frank Fearless!’ he announced, hopping about like a pig on a hot griddle.at like a..., phr.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 84/1: Come on! slide in if you are after squar’ up-and-down fun.at up-and-down, adj.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 82/3: ‘Go to blazes!’ shouts back Jehu.at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 84/1: Harris, (who now held a cocked pill-box in each hand).at pill-box, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: The ‘toughs’ are after you, and you can’t find a better place to coop than in here.at coop, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: I’ll take you over to my coop, and you can lay low [...] You’ll have to promise me one thing, however, ere I admit you as a member of my household.at coop, n.1
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: I ain’t afeerd o’ all the robber Dicks from here ter Jerusalem.at dick, n.1
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: ‘Gentlemen!’ he [the coachman] plead, ‘there is need o’ yer dutchin’ out yer dudads right liberal ef yer’ve enny purtic’lar anticipation an’ desire ter git ter Deadwood ter-night.at doodad, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: Get down! [...] before I drop you.at drop, v.3
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: ‘Gentlemen!’ he [the coachman] plead, ‘there is need o’ yer dutchin’ out yer dudads right liberal ef yer’ve enny purtic’lar anticipation an’ desire ter git ter Deadwood ter-night. Dick, the Road-Agent, are law an’ gospel heerabouts, I spec’late!’.at Dutch out (v.) under Dutch, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 87: But, now that we are counting eggs, how much of the ‘lay’ is to be mine.at egg, n.5
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/3: Redburn [...] had already learned from study and experience how to guess a fat strike.at fat, adj.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83: The game was poker. [...] ‘You’re flaxed ag’in pardner!’ he said with a light laugh, as he raked in the stakes.at flax, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: ‘Durned a cent I’ll fork!’ growled an old fellow.at fork out, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 1/3: Thar’s them gol danged copper-colored guests uv ther government.at goldarned, adj.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: Come along [...] we’ll have to scratch gravel.at scratch (the) gravel (v.) under gravel, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 88/2: Are you well-heeled?at heeled, adj.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 82/3: ‘Poppong-jays?’ echoed Filmore, senior. ‘Yas—shutin’-irons—rewolwers—patent perforatin’ masheens.’.at shooting iron, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:180/1: I’ll take you over to my coop, and you can lay low there until this jamboree blows over.at jamboree, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 81/3: Across ther back, kerwhack!at ker-, pfx
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 81/3: When a feller kerflummuxes rite down onter a payin’ streek I opine he’s goin’ ter roost thar till get gits reddy to vamoose.at kerflummox, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: I’ll take you over to my coop, and you can lay low there until this jamboree blows over.at lay low, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: ‘Did I kill the card-sharp?’ ‘No; you simply perforated him in the right side.’.at perforate, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: A green pilgrim is the first to get salted.at pilgrim, n.1
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:14/1: P’arps ye kin tell me who fired the popgun, a minnit ago, w’at basted my ole pard.at popgun, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/3: By all the roarin’, screechin’, shriekin’, yowlin’, squawkin’, ringtailed, flat-futted cattymounts that ever did their forest aisles o’ old Alaska traverse!, you here, ye infernal smooth-faced varmint?at ringtailed snorter, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 89/3: Deadwood, the road-agent chief rode out of the chaparral [...] He was still masked, well armed, and looking every inch the Prince of the Road.at road-agent (n.) under road, n.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 84/1: I smacked him in the gob.at smack, v.
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/2: Better that you should take the matter into your own hands and face the music, than to employ tools.at tool, n.1
1877 E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/3: He laid an X in the ruffian’s hands.at X, n.2