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A Treatise upon Publicans choose

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[UK] A Treatise upon Publicans 13: When they are half seas over, as the saying is.
at half seas over, adj.
[UK] A Treatise upon Publicans 14: These and such like are the scenes in these houses.
at house, n.1
[UK] A Treatise upon Publicans 26: One says to the other aside, I’m peckish, they asks the landlord what he had to eat?
at peckish, adj.
[UK] Treatise upon Publicans 2: If he has not the right use of his limbs, how can he encounter with a ruffian, or one that is irregular, to get him out of the house?
at ruffian, n.1
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