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[UK] World 37 223: Punch, bishop, cool tankard, and negus are equally denied me .
at bishop, n.2
[UK] World 13 June No. 76 (1819) 126: He doubts if your pictures are originals, and expresses his apprehension that your statues will bring the house down .
at bring the house down (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] World 4 Sept. 140/1: How arbitrary is language! and how does the custom of mankind join words, that reason has put asunder! Thus we often hear of hell-fire cold, of devilish handsome, and the like .
at hell-fired (adj.) under hell, n.
[UK] World 15 July no. 185 (1819) 153: This old fellow is of a most capricious, unequal temper, and, like the satyr in the fable, blows hot and cold in the same breath .
at blow hot and cold (v.) under blow, v.1
[UK] World 207: He ... had always greased my heels himself, and upon every one of my birthdays, had treated all his brother whips at his own expence [F&H].
at brother (of the) whip (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] World No. 164 n.p.: Now if this be only a hum (as I suppose it is) upon our country apes, it being blown in the World will put an end to it [F&H].
at hum, n.2
[UK] World No. 202 n.p.: Proud of the summons to display his might, The gay Lothario dresses for a fight [F&H].
at lothario, n.
[UK] World n.p.: Colonel Kitchener will probably stick to his original intention of having only gippies (as they call the Egyptian soldiers here) at Suakim [B&L].
at gippy, n.
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