1892 A. Bierce letter 6 Nov. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 16: I have awful arrears of correspondence.at awful, adj.
1893 A. Bierce letter 2 Oct. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 33: I am pretty black myself.at black, adj.
1893 A. Bierce letter 18 Apr. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 32: I have just lost another publisher — by failure. Schulte, of Chicago [...] has ‘gone under’.at go under, v.
1893 A. Bierce letter 14 Feb. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 24: Suppose hats were to ‘go out’.at out, adv.1
1893 A. Bierce letter 5 Feb. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 24: My New York publishers [...] have failed, owing me a pot of money.at pot, n.1
1893 A. Bierce letter 16 Apr. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 30: I can’t hold you and inject sheckels into your pocket.at shekels, n.
1901 A. Bierce letter 1 Jan. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 430: It is just the holy cheek of you.at holy, adj.
1904 A. Bierce letter 27 Aug. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 98: Your determination to ‘boom’ me almost frightens me.at boom, v.
1904 A. Bierce letter 14 Jun. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 95: I am sending the W. of W. to Scribner’s [...] and if it is not taken shall try the other mags.at mag, n.4
1905 A. Bierce letter 3 Dec. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 113: Yes, I was sorry to whack London, for whom, in his character as author, I have high admiration, and in that of publicist and reformer, a deep contempt. Even if he had been a personal friend I should have whacked him.at whack, v.1
1906 A. Bierce letter 11 Aug. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 125: The weather here is wicked! I don’t even canoe.at wicked, adj.
1907 A. Bierce letter 21 Feb. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 131: So your colony of high-brows is re-establishing itself at the old stand.at highbrow, n.
1909 A. Bierce letter 1 Nov. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 157: You better ’fess up to your young friend.at fess, v.
1909 A. Bierce letter 9 Jan. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 154: I would be a good deal of a Socialist myself if they had not made the word (and the thing) stink.at stink, v.
1910 A. Bierce letter 29 Jan. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 159: I am enclosing something that will tickle you I hope.at tickle, v.
1911 A. Bierce letter 27 Dec. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 182: Carrie will find that Misses C.and S. will be ‘no deadheads in the enterprise’.at deadhead, n.
1911 A. Bierce letter 15 Feb. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 170: Your ‘party’ is recruited from among sore-heads only.at sorehead, n.
1912 A. Bierce letter 5 Jan. in Pope Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 183: As to pot-steaks, toddies, and the like, I shall simply swear off eating and drinking.at swear off (v.) under swear, v.