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Euphues and his England choose

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[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 98: Neither was I much unlike these abbey-lubbers in my life (though far unlike them in belief).
at abbey-lubber, n.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 132: For children [...] of obstinate and blockish behaviour are neither with words to be persuaded, neither with stripes to be corrected.
at blockish (adj.) under block, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 103: If she be well set then call her a boss, if slender a hazel twig.
at boss, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 129: Is it not become a byword amongst the common people that they had rather send their children to the cart than to the university, being induced to say so for the abuse that reigneth in the universities?
at cart, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 92: Curio be as hot as toast, yet Euphues is as cold as a clock; though he be a cock of the game.
at cock of the game (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 101: Neither water thou thy plants, in that thou departest from thy pigsney.
at pigsnyes, n.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 193: I have brought into the world two children. Of the first I was delivered before my friends thought me conceived; of the second I went a whole year big.
at big, adj.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 302: All lovers (he only excepted) are cooled with a card of ten, or rather fooled with a vain toy.
at card of ten, n.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 296: Thy Caesar being turned to a vicar [...] thy Senate of three-hundred grave counsellors to a shameless synod of three-thousand greedy caterpillars.
at caterpillar, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 304: He gave him a choke-pear to stop his breath, replying as followeth ...
at choke pear (n.) under choke, v.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 270: Little do I esteem [...] those that crack of their love and have no modesty.
at crack, v.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 212: Such a world it is that gods can do nothing without gold [...] nor philosophers anything without gilt.
at gilt, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 403: In letting your course by striking at your short heels you would, when I should crave pardon, show me a high instep.
at short heels, n.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 265: She will ever conceal whom she loves; and to wear a horn and not know it will do me no more harm than to eat a fly and not see it.
at horn, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 214: By Gis, son I account the cheer good which maintaineth health.
at by Jis! (excl.) under Jis, n.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 224: He was entangled with women, entrapped, deceived, that every stool he sat on was penniless bench, that his robes were in rages.
at sit on penniless bench (v.) under sit on, v.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (2009) 58: Hee also strayned his olde pype, and thus beganne...
at pipe, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 209: Be not hasty to marry. It is better to have one plough going than two cradles.
at plough, n.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 230: Lucilla is dead [...] wring not a horse on the withers with a false saddle.
at saddle, n.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and His England (2009) 584: Your eies are so sharp that you cannot onely looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde, and so cunning that you can levell at the dispositions of women whom you never knew .
at see through a millstone (v.) under see, v.
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 309: If he love not, thou stretchest out like a wire-drawer.
at wire-draw (n.) under wire, n.1
[UK] Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 374: They are too expert in love, having learned in this time of their long peace every wrinkle that is to be seen or imagined.
at wrinkle, n.
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