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letter 18 Nov. in Letters (1893) 130: I was so beastly dirty when I got to this house .at beastly, adv.
letter 18 Nov. in Letters (1893) 130: I was so beastly dirty when I got to this house . letter 3 Jan. Letters (1977) IV 9: That extraordinary compound of odd scents peculiar to a theatre [...] accompanies me, as I meet perspiring supers in the narrow passage.at super, n.1
letter 19 Jan. Letters (1880) I 422: We may knock out a series of descriptions without much trouble .at knock out, v.
letter 18 Apr. in Letters (1880) II 178: The Bow Street runners [...] had no other uniform than a blue dress-coat, brass buttons [...] and a bright red cloth waistcoat. The waistcoat was indispensible, and the slang name for them was ‘red-breasts,’ in consequence.at robin redbreast, n.
letter 29 Mar. in Letters (1879) 333: The colleges mustered in full force from the biggest guns to the smallest.at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
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