1842 C.M. Kirkland Forest Life I 145: The two friends [...] regaled each other with sundry pieces of intelligence relating to [...] the Toms, Dicks, and Harries of their acquaintance.at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
1842 C.M. Kirkland Forest Life I 103: Why, you don’t eat nothing! [...] ridin’ don’t agree with you, I guess! Now, for my part, it makes me savage as a meat-axe.at savage as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
1842 C.M. Kirkland Forest Life I 135: ‘I ain’t bound to drive nobody in the middle of the night,’ said the driver; ‘so you don’t try to suck me in there.’.at suck in, v.
1842 C.M. Kirkland Forest Life I 83: We stick to thoroughwort,—balmony,—soot tea,—‘number six,’—and the like.at number six (n.) under number, n.
1842 C.M. Kirkland Forest Life I 117: Look here, uncle! I want you to take notice of one thing, I didn’t engage to wait upon ye. I ain’t nobody’s nigger, mind that!at uncle, n.
1842 C.M. Kirkland Forest Life I 111: We took our pay in wild-cat money, that turned to waste paper before we got it off our hands.at wildcat, adj.