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‘The English Way’ in Awfully Big Adventure (1919) 252: We’ve caught this party cold!at cold, adv.
‘The English Way’ in Awfully Big Adventure (1919) 252: We’ve caught this party cold! ‘The English Way’ in Awfully Big Adventure (1919) 255: Give it to ’em hot and strong!at give it hot (and strong) (v.) under hot, adv.
‘The English Way’ in Awfully Big Adventure (1919) 248: Read that, my pippin.at pippin, n.
‘Chinks’ in Awfully Big Adventure (1919) 173: Twenty-four of ’em Chinks. You risked your ship for a couple of dozen yellow-bellies!at yellow belly, n.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 75: It’s a good life, afloat. A clean life ... Better’n mucking about ashore with women.at muck about, v.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 95: Went over twice to see that Marine bloke [...] and blowed if he wasn’t in Town each time.at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 122: I reckon the bounding blue’s good enough for me.at blue, n.1
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 120: Lord knows why I should have been rammed up in bed while all you pirates lapped up bubbly and made a night of it.at bubbly, n.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ Awfully Big Adventure 96: I thought that, as we were going over the bags together, we might meet and have a chin-wag.at chinwag, n.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 38: The children, who sat wide-eyed and silent during this confab.at confab, n.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 101: The Mess was crowded [...] with Subalterns and Lieutenants, smoking and talking nineteen to the dozen. Into that Dutch Parliament strolled Mouldy Jakes.at Dutch row (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 38: I’m not going to face those man-eaters alone.at man-eater, n.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 95: Here we are sweatin’ our guts out.at sweat one’s guts out (v.) under gut, n.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 30: Lady Manners is away. Gone to town with old Sir Stick-in-the-mud.at stick-in-the-mud, n.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 120: Lord knows why I should have been rammed up in bed while all you pirates lapped up bubbly and made a night of it.at lap, v.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 38: We won’t stop, ta fearfully all the same.at ta muchly!, excl.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 120: He pointed to a tin of cigarettes with a wry face. ‘Dead off baccy,’ he said.at off, prep.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 79: ‘A Captain is wanted to command a certain unit of the force; are you on for it?’ ‘I’m on for it all right,’ I replied.at on, adv.1
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 29: Don’t work up a ‘pash’ over him till you know more about him.at pash, n.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 13: They give me the holy pip.at give someone the pip (v.) under pip, n.1
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 24: ‘Right-ho!’ he said gruffly.at righto!, excl.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 7: Our governess. She’s a perfect ripper.at ripper, n.1
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 121: We threaded our way through the stuffy-smelling corridors of the Admiralty [...] ‘Phew! Shockin’ frowst!’.at shocking, adj.
‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 93: Selby was our Navigator, a dry, thoughtful old stick.at stick, n.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 17: How would you like to [...] ride eighty miles carrying spare parts on a stink-bike.at stink-bike (n.) under stink, n.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 16: I only get wound up like this once in a blue moon.at wound-up, adj.
‘The Wooing of Mouldy Jakes’ in Awfully Big Adventure 29: Don’t work up a ‘pash’ over him till you know more about him. For all you know, he’s married already – or wrapped up in another girl.at wrapped up (adj.) under wrapped, adj.
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