1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 112: She bailed me up and asked me if I was going to keep my promise and marry her.at bail up, v.
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 21: Two bushrangers who stole our horses.at bushranger (n.) under bush, n.1
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 51: We [...] had a good passage to Hong-Kong. When we arrived, the first Chinese war with Britain had broken out, and there was every appearance of plenty of fun to be shortly had with the Chinkies .at Chinky, n.
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 5: The coin current in those days (1829) consisted of ring-dollars and dumps, the dump being the centre of the dollar punched out to represent a smaller currency.at dump, n.1
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 57: I called upon Johnny Crapaud to defend himself.at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 61: He offered me a ‘tenth lay,’ i.e. a tenth of the entire profits.at lay, n.4
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 197: The old identities were beginning to be alive to the situation.at old identity (n.) under old, adj.
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 197: They had only just been liberated from gaol, and were the stickers-up, or highwaymen mentioned.at sticker-up, n.
1879 W.J. Barry Up and Down 114: They had still a very great ‘down,’ I noticed, on the Sydney people or the ‘Sydney Ducks.’.at Sydney duck (n.) under Sydney, n.