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Up and Down; Fifty Years Colonial Experiences choose

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[UK] W.J. Barry Up and Down 21: Two men [...] commanded us to ‘bail up!’.
at bail up, v.
[UK] 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.
[UK] W.J. Barry Up and Down 21: Two bushrangers who stole our horses.
at bushranger (n.) under bush, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] W.J. Barry Up and Down 57: I called upon Johnny Crapaud to defend himself.
at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
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