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The Athenian Spy choose

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[UK] J. Dunton Athenian Spy 282: Give us a good plain Earthen Platter, that will endure a sound Bang, and while we eat in’t we’re safer from Poyson, then if all our Meat were serv’d up in Unicorns’ Horns.
at bang, n.1
[UK] J. Dunton Athenian Spy 306: The Port-Holes are all up. The Tombkins out, primed, matched, ready. The little Fireship of a Woman opens her Lips ... There is no Remedy unless you get out of Gun-shot, but she has ye between Wind and Water, rakes ye fore and aft, and down you go to the Deep.
at fireship, n.
[UK] J. Dunton Athenian Spy 322: There’s scarce one in Fifty of your London Sparks but what are swingingly Pox’d.
at swingingly (adv.) under swinging, adj.1
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