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The Pagan Prince choose

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[UK] Pagan Prince 54: The same threats and Menaces of the Palatine being carry’d to the Marshal de Tonneure, not withstanding all his former Encomiums, Oh! quo he, the Palatine’s a young prince; give him leave to huff and ding for his living; words break no Bones.
at huff and ding, v.
[UK] Pagan Prince 69: Let all the Bullets in the Belgian Fleet, kiss where I sate on Sunday.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[UK] Pagan Prince 15: They might the better be able to play at In, and In.
at play (at) in and in (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Pagan Prince 4: This Tutor dy’d of a Clap which he got in his Old Age.
at clap, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 123: For not withstanding his Bulk, he was but Cow-hearted.
at cow-hearted (adj.) under cow, n.1
[UK] Pagan Prince 12: The Cause was a very knotty Cause between the Sieur John Doe Plaintiff, and the Sieur Richard Roe Defendant.
at John Doe, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 13: The great Men at Court had forbidden the French Disease to trouble the Bumpkins, as being more desirous to entertain it themselves.
at French disease (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] Pagan Prince 71: The King of Albion, [England] had a prodigiously vast Herring Pond in the North Seas.
at herring pond (n.) under herring, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 35: For a Prince to have [...] the third part of a mans length laid up in Lavender before he has half done with them, I must needs confess, I do not very well approve.
at lay (up) in lavender, v.
[UK] Pagan Prince 119: The White-liver’d, Faint-hearted, Lazy, Lozelly Belgians.
at white-livered, adj.
[UK] Pagan Prince 32: He saw a comly person mounted upon a stately Prancer.
at prancer, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 20: It was that the greatest part of the Task was only Rimble ramble Discourse.
at rimble-ramble, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 29: The Arragonian Bakers [...] gave them ill Language, calling them Tooth-Gapers, Sherks, Shittabeds, Slubberdegullions .
at shitabed (n.) under shit, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 29: The Arragonian Bakers [...] gave them ill Language, calling them Tooth-Gapers, Sherks, Shittabeds, Slubberdegullions, Liquorish Whelps.
at slabberdegullion, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 39: I have heard, that if a man comes into the world in his Mothers Smicket, he shall be the most fortunate man in the world.
at smicket, n.
[UK] Pagan Prince 71: And so, noble Tritons, every one to his command; stand to your Panpudding.
at stand to one’s pan-pudding (v.) under stand, v.2
[UK] Pagan Prince 120: They would not so much as vouchsafe him a T--- in his Teeth, but kept themselves husht and quiet.
at turd in your teeth! (excl.) under turd, n.
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