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Police Sergeant C 21 132: I might have been more wide-awake than to be taken in by such a cock-and-bull story as that of Power’s.at wide-awake, adj.
Police Sergeant C 21 132: I might have been more wide-awake than to be taken in by such a cock-and-bull story as that of Power’s. Police Sergeant C 21 235: If his back were to be bared, you would perceive there the seams left by the ‘cat;’ for convict 25, 730 has been flogged – ‘bashed’ he would call it.at bash, v.
Police Sergeant C 21 252: But as they were ‘bogmen,’ or employed with the out-door gangs, Robert did not see a great deal of them.at bogman (n.) under bog, n.3
Police Sergeant C 21 58: I’m second boots, I am.at boots, n.2
Police Sergeant C 21 72: I’m a bit chaffy, I know – it’s my stupid way, but I’m not a bad chap.at chaffy, adj.
Police Sergeant C 21 233: Jacob Stanley was, as Tom Brusel had discovered, one of a tribe of Roma. It might be, then, that the ‘Romany chal,’ grown into a man, had not forgotten altogether his origin.at chal, n.
Police Sergeant C 21 88: Your form’s too good for me by long chalks.at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
Police Sergeant C 21 68: Well done, old cock.at old cock, n.
Police Sergeant C 21 28: It was not unnatural that his ‘crib’ should be, in burglarious circles, cited as an excellent one to ‘crack’.at crack, v.2
Police Sergeant C 21 47: I thought I’d seen the last of it when I left Woolchester and the whole crew there.at crew, n.
Police Sergeant C 21 156: Crikey! [...] she’s going straight for the house.at crikey!, excl.
Police Sergeant C 21 258: Then when I was going to ask him to have a shy at the Aunt Sally, he whispers slyly, ‘kushoto bak’ to me – which is Romany for good luck.at cushty bok under cushty, adj.
Police Sergeant C 21 153: Dash me! of course.at dash, v.1
Police Sergeant C 21 132: Don’t you think you’ve been dished and nicely this time.at dished, adj.
Police Sergeant C 21 71: What about the other petticoat; the one who has done us all so neat by her beautiful scarper.at done, adj.
Police Sergeant C 21 244: He may sleep [...] or he may walk up and down his cell; indulge in the luxury of a ‘double shuffle’ with his feet.at double shuffle, n.
Police Sergeant C 21 246: The convict shook his head. ‘’Tain’t the farm (it is by this name that most prisoners designate the infirmary) as would cure me. What I want is fresh air.’.at farm, n.1
Police Sergeant C 21 31: You must have met, during the course of your experience [...] with men who have gone under.at go under, v.
Police Sergeant C 21 132: If you’re too thick-headed to see it, we’re not.at thick-headed, adj.
Police Sergeant C 21 249: You ain’t kidding a poor cove that’s down.at kid, v.
Police Sergeant C 21 249: She ain’t a strong woman; and hard work would soon knock her up.at knock up, v.
Police Sergeant C 21 258: A rya dressed up to the knocker passes and takes a good look at me.at dressed up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
Police Sergeant C 21 236: The letter ‘L,’ signifying that he is a convict for life, may probably be stamped upon the badge carried by prisoners on their sleeves.at L, n.
Police Sergeant C 21 235: When he has worked out his ‘lag,’ he will go out and put into execution the schemes which he has formed in his mind.at lag, n.2
Police Sergeant C 21 132: What new lay are you going to shove yourself on, superintendent?at lay, n.3
Police Sergeant C 21 82: ‘What news have you got?’ ‘Dead licked, both me and Clark, sir.’.at licked, adj.
Police Sergeant C 21 30: The culprits [...] were secured, and that very night reposed serenely in the Sandbank lock-up.at lockup, n.
Police Sergeant C 21 52: When out in mufti he did not wear the regulation boots of convict manufacture, betraying at once the constable in the civilian’s skin.at mufti, n.
Police Sergeant C 21 71: What about the other petticoat; the one who has done us all so neat by her beautiful scarper.at neat, adv.
Police Sergeant C 21 236: His neighbour, 25,731, is, on the contrary, a ‘new hand’.at new hand (n.) under new, adj.
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