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The Adventures of Harry Richmond choose

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[UK] G. Meredith Harry Richmond III 70: The assurance of an untroubled reception upon their customary camping-grounds, is a peculiarity of the gipsies, distinguishing them [...] from mumpers and the common wanderers.
at mumper, n.
[UK] G. Meredith Harry Richmond III 60: Now they had caught me, now they would pay me, now they would pound me.
at pay, v.
[UK] G. Meredith Harry Richmond I 135: There was a saying in the county that to marry a Beltham you must po’chay her. [Ibid.] 158: ‘She’s past po’chaises’, Squire Gregory sighed.
at po’chaise, n.
[UK] G. Meredith Harry Richmond III 224: Plenty of foreign whiffmagigs are to be found, but you won’t come upon a fellow like that.
at whiffmagig, n.
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