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Cattle Brands choose

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[US] A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 If it takes a week to turn the trick properly, good enough.
at turn a trick, v.1
[US] A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 I squeezed the hand of an alfalfa widow during a waltz.
at alfalfa, adj.
[US] A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Jack and his bride must have a blow-out right.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] A. Adams ‘Bad Medicine’Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘I always was such a poor hand afoot that I passed up that country, and here I am a “boomer”.’ ‘Well, boom if you want,’ said Tom Roll.
at boom, v.
[US] A. Adams ‘Bad Medicine’ Cattle Brands 🌐 I always was such a poor hand afoot that I passed up that country, and here I am a ‘boomer.’.
at boomer, n.3
[US] A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Coon Floyd’s compliments went with five cow-bells, which we always thought he rustled from a boomer’s wagon that broke down over on the Reno trail.
at boomer, n.2
[US] A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘Well, we are certainly in a bad box,’ said he meditatingly.
at in a box under box, n.1
[US] A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Watch me build to the one inside with the black eyes. [...] As soon as we get this beef hung up I’m going in and sidle up to her.
at build (up), v.
[US] A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 If there was any one thing that he shone in, it was rustling coffin varnish during the early prohibition days along the Kansas border.
at coffin varnish (n.) under coffin, n.1
[US] A. Adams ‘Bad Medicine’ Cattle Brands 🌐 [of cattle] when the rear guard of crips and dogies passed this impromptu review, we all waited patiently for the verdict.
at crip, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 While I was in the hospital I got my divvy of the prize money.
at divvy, n.1
[US] A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 I’ll bet a twist of dog, [...] that prisoner with the black whiskers sabes English.
at dog-leg (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] A. Adams ‘Seigerman’s Per Cent’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 I want you to [...] give him a big game about what a general uprising there is [...] for an efficient man for the office of sheriff.
at game, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Some geranium out there wants me to come out and shake hands, pow-wow, and make some medicine with him.
at geranium, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘Drifting North’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘Now, girls,’ said Baugh, addressing Carter and the stranger, ‘I’ve made you a bed out of the wagon-sheet.’.
at girl, n.1
[US] A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘Say [...] I have some choice old copper-distilled, sent me by a very dear friend in Kentucky.’ The goods were all he claimed for them.
at goods, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Jack must have pictured this claim mighty hifalutin to that gal, for she’s a way up good-looker.
at highfalutin, adv.
[US] A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Says he will have two fiddlers, and promises us the hog killingest time of our lives.
at hog-killing (time) (n.) under hog, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Young calves, you know, make larruping fine eating for grays [i.e. wolves].
at larruping, adv.
[US] A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Yes, tangled his feet in some vines in a sunken treetop, and the poor fellow’s light went out.
at put someone’s light(s) out (v.) under light, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Miller, noticing it, ordered the Indian war-dance as given by the Cheyennes [...] we ki-yied as we had witnessed Lo in the dance on festive occasions.
at Lo, n.1
[US] A. Adams ‘At Commanche Ford’ Cattle Brands [Internet] The horses had strayed [...] and when we found them they were cutting up as if they had been eating loco weed for a month.
at locoweed, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘So you think I’ve lost my number, do you?’ commented Edwards.
at lose the number of one’s mess (v.) under lose, v.
[US] A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Some geranium out there wants me to come out and shake hands, pow-wow, and make some medicine with him.
at make medicine (v.) under medicine, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘At Commanche Ford’ Cattle Brands 🌐 He was a night owl. It was nothing for him to be seen at some ranch in the evening, and the next morning be met seventy-five or eighty miles distant.
at night owl, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘Drifting North’ Cattle Brands 🌐 This is no time to throw off, or refuse to be sociable.
at throw off, v.
[US] A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 These old long-horns got owly, laid their heads together, and made a little medicine.
at owl-eyed (adj.) under owl, n.
[US] A. Adams ‘At Commanche Ford’ Cattle Brands 🌐 I was riding a cream-colored horse, and he was as good a one as ever was built on four pegs.
at peg, n.1
[US] A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 We didn’t halt all night long on either trail, pegging along at a steady gait.
at peg along (v.) under peg, v.2
[US] A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Just then I got a plug in the shoulder, and things got dizzy and dark.
at plug, n.1
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