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Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation choose

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[UK] Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation 35: Every now and then out bolts a Fellow and whips nimbly a-cross the way [...] fearful both of Bailiff and Constable.
at bolt, v.
[UK] Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation [title page] Inscribed to the Bona-Roba’s in the several Hundreds, Chaces, Parks and Warrens, North, East, West and South of Covent-Garden; and to the Band of Petticoat Pensioners, etc.
at bona roba, n.
[UK] Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation [title].
at doings, n.1
[UK] Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation 24: Not content with our Sex, [Sappho] begins Amours with her own and teaches the Female World a new sort of Sin, call’d the Flats.
at flats, n.1
[UK] Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation [title page] Inscribed to the Bona-Roba’s in the several Hundreds, Chaces, Parks and Warrens, North, East, West and South of Covent-Garden; and to the Band of Petticoat Pensioners, etc.
at petticoat pensioner (n.) under petticoat, n.
[UK] Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation 33: Their Art of Trapping [...] by Sharpers, Setters and Bullies.
at setter, n.1
[UK] Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation [title page] Inscribed to the Bona-Roba’s in the several Hundreds, Chaces, Parks and Warrens, North, East, West and South of Covent-Garden; and to the Band of Petticoat Pensioners, etc.
at warren, n.1
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