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Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of New York (1816 to 1860) choose

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[UK] C.H. Haswell Reminiscences of City of N.Y. 376: There were other notorious locations [...] Maloney’s and ‘Bottle Alley,’ both of which were an ‘Alsatia’ or harbour for human derelicts, criminals of the lowest grade, and tramps.
at Alsatia, n.
[UK] C.H. Haswell Reminiscences of City of N.Y. 379: The Democratic papers dwelt upon the act and termed the perpetrators ‘pipe-layers’; which term [...] is still in current use to denote concealed and indirect methods of political or other actions.
at pipe-layer, n.
[UK] C.H. Haswell Reminiscences of City of N.Y. 331: He [...] was in the habit of referring to Governor Seward as his ‘small potato highness’.
at small-potato, adj.
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