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Low Life Above Stairs choose

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[UK] Low Life Above Stairs II v: Damn the B-t-ch to Hell and the Devil, she has p-x-d me.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Low Life Above Stairs II i: It is a damn’d Thing that a Man of my Quality should be taken in so grossly, by a Pack of scoundrel Sharpers.
at damned, adj.
[UK] Low Life Above Stairs II ii: Oh! ’tis Frisseron, my Barber; the impudent Dog to pretend to rival a Nobleman!
at dog, n.2
[UK] Low Life Above Stairs I v: (To the Pit) A Friendly Office you our Love may do [...] Cough, or cry Hem! should any one approach.
at office, n.
[UK] Low Life Above Stairs II v: They only bring Nobility into Disgrace [...] just as a Parcel of low-lived Wretches make the Manners of their Superiors appear ridiculous by an aukward Imitation of them.
at parcel, n.
[UK] Low Life Above Stairs I i: Her Ladyship has been poxed as often as any Drab in Drury-lane.
at poxed (adj.) under pox, n.1
[UK] Low Life Above Stairs I i: You must know I have for some time past languished, with the most tender Passion for the Duchess of Lovesport.
at sport, n.
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