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Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land choose

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[US] ‘Billy Barlow’ in Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 16: There were lots of fine statues [...] Which beat all I’d ’ere seen before out and out.
at out-and-out, adv.
[US] ‘The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter’ in Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 15: In love I’ll constant prove, and – blow me if I’ll live long arter.
at blow me!, excl.2
[US] ‘The Dandy Broadway Swell’ Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 46: They may talk of dandy darkies, / But they never seen this coon / A promenading Broadway, / On Sunday afternoon.
at coon, n.
[US] ‘Joe Bowers’ in Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 26: I had such wolfish feelings [...] But the thoughts of my dear Sally soon made them feelins git.
at get, v.
[US] ‘The Dandy Broadway Swell’ Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 46: I’m the grit, the go, the cheese.
at go, n.1
[US] ‘The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter’ in Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 14: Not long ago in Vestminster there lived a rat-catcher’s daughter, / And yet she didn’t live in Vestminster, ’cause she loved ’tother side of the water.
at other side (n.) under other, adj.
[US] ‘Joe Bowers’ in Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 26: When I got to that country, I hadn’t ‘nary red’.
at red, n.
[US] ‘Sally Come Up’ in Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 43: She can smell a rat, / So mind what you’re at.
at smell a rat (v.) under smell, v.
[US] ‘Billy Barlow’ Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 15: Three cheers and a tiger for Billy Barlow.
at tiger, n.
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