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[UK] R.B. Peake Life of an Actor II iv: Oh, what a banging house we shall have!
at banging, adj.
[UK] R.B. Peake Life of an Actor II v: Sir Capias Gooseberry – oh, brilliant luck!
at brilliant, adj.
[UK] R.B. Peake Life of an Actor I i: I am dead perfect in the part.
at dead, adv.
[UK] R.B. Peake Life of an Actor II i: Poor! Coming Jeremy Diddler over me – Here’s a sovereign.
at diddler, n.2
[UK] R.B. Peake Life of an Actor I iv: The actor, sir, is a creature of amusement [...] I have been gagging, as it is termed, for the last twenty-five years.
at gag, v.
[UK] R.B. Peake Life of an Actor II i: That Mrs. Landlady is a monstrous pretty little lump of rusticity!
at lump, n.
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