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[UK] R. L’Estrange Supplement of Fables (1692) CCCCXCVIII 473: Tis Broad as tis Long at last, whether a Man be Undone by a Cabal of Sharpers [...] or by a Troup of Canary Birds upon Newmarket Heath.
at canary-bird, n.1
[UK] R. L’Estrange Supplement of Fables (1692) CCCCXX 392: They fell to Lapping and Guzzling, ’till in one Word, they Burst themselves.
at guzzle, v.1
[UK] R. L’Estrange Supplement of Fables (1692) CCCCIIIV 375: These Pick-thanks are enough to set Mankind together by the Ears; they live on Calumny and Slander.
at pickthank, n.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Supplement of Fables (1692) CCCCLI 424: Some Soft-headed, Conscientious Fop might have Swallow’d it.
at soft-headed (adj.) under soft, adj.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Supplement of Fables (1692) CCCCXCIV 466: They stood upon their Pantoufles, that men they were, and that Men he should find ’em to be.
at stand upon one’s pantables (v.) under stand up, v.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Supplement of Fables (1692) CCCCXCV 468: A Fellow had got a Wench in a Corner [...] but the Gipsy stood upon her Points forsooth; She’d not be Towz’d and Tumbled at that Rate, i faith not She.
at towze, v.
[UK] R. L’Estrange Supplement of Fables (1692) CCCCLXXXIV 455: You may fancy perhaps, that there are No other Thieves than those that the Law Exposes to the Pillory, or [...] a Turn perchance at Tyburn.
at turn, n.1
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