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Brenham Weekly Banner choose

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[US] Brenham Wkly Banner (TX) 8 Feb. 1/2: The Seguin gentleman evidently desires to go the entire swine or take naught.
at go the entire swine (v.) under swine, n.
[US] Brenham Wkly Banner 28 Nov. 3/5: He hit him a beautiful diff on the head.
at diff, n.
[US] Brenham Wkly Banner 2 Apr. 1/7: Sarah Hughes [...] a beer-jerker in San Antonio, suicided in that town by taking arsenic.
at beer-jerker (n.) under beer, n.
[US] Brenham Wkly Banner (TX) 9 Sept. 3/1: Persons visiting the city should not fail to visit our compres. [sic] It’s a perfect daisy.
at daisy, n.
[US] Brenham Wkly Banner (TX) 4 Sept. 6/1: Mamie Garvey was arraigned [...] for being found lying in the street as ‘drunk as David’s sow’.
at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
[US] Brenham Wkly Banner (TX) 20 Mar. 5/3: Mr Schuerenberg was eight chickens short [...] The thief or thieves were uinusually bold, and added to their crime of chicken-lifting an attempted burglary.
at chicken-lifter (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] Brenham Wkly Banner (TX) 18 Sept. 10/1: This is the last time I come down here [...] to give these little one-horse papers a chance to ridicule me by calling me a ‘news butcher’.
at news butcher (n.) under news, n.
[US] Brenham Wkly Banner (TX) 25 Nov. 7/3: The rough and tumble, fist and skull, knock-down and drag-out bout in which they engaged.
at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
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