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Western Wilds 41: More’n once the robbers would tackle some gritty man that was handy with his ‘barkers,’ an’ he’d get away with two or three of ’em.at get away (with), v.
Western Wilds 41: More’n once the robbers would tackle some gritty man that was handy with his ‘barkers,’ an’ he’d get away with two or three of ’em. Western Wilds 611: Raised a little corn and oats in 1873, and put thirty acres [...] into wheat and went to work with a hurrah in 1874 to make a God-awful crop.at God-awful, adj.
Western Wilds 183: And as for whiskey, wh-e-u-w! It was sod corn barefooted.at barefoot, adj.
Western Wilds 46: He had what he called a ‘big biz’ at each successive terminus town, and was now in Omaha to buy a ‘little bill’ of ten thousand dollars’ worth of provisions.at big, adj.
Western Wilds 118: I saw a man [...] who had been ‘bodaciously chawed up’ to use his own language, by a grizzly bear.at bodaciously, adv.
Western Wilds 37: Bolted, did she?at bolt, v.
Western Wilds 407: Numbers of ‘bull-whackers,’ sunburnt, healthy, and jolly, carrying with them their murderous whips.at bullwhacker, n.
Western Wilds 187: The dog that started it all [was] so chawed up a Chinaman couldn’t ’a made him over into chow-chow.at chow-chow, n.1
Western Wilds 46: He staked a pile of ‘chips’ and won; then made and lost, and made and lost alternately, selling his stock when ‘broke,’ [...] till the tail of his last mule was ‘coppered on the jack’.at copper, v.1
Western Wilds 41: But if the country was like heaven, the folks was like the other place [...] Such sights – such doins’! I’d never a’ believed men would carry on so.at doings, n.1
Western Wilds iii. 45: My friend Will Wylie, who had seen the elephant in its entirety, from trunk to tail.at see the elephant (v.) under elephant, n.
Western Wilds iii 45: A man [...] failed, lost hope, and sank into a ‘floater’.at floater, n.1
Western Wilds 611: ‘Neighbor,’ says he, ‘you’re a goner; them’s chintz-bugs, and every head o’ wheat that an’t cut, ’ll be et up in forty-eight hours.’.at goner, n.1
Western Wilds 41: More’n once the robbers would tackle some gritty man that was handy with his ‘barkers,’ an’ he’d get away with two or three of ’em.at gritty, adj.1
Western Wilds 36: We was as much skeered of each other as we was of the Hawkeyes.at hawkeye, n.1
Western Wilds 611: I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it [wheat] before Monday night.at hoot, n.2
Western Wilds 611: Went out one fine sunny morning about the first of June, and thought, by jiminy, the whole ground was moving. Ten million hoppers to the square yard.at hopper, n.2
Western Wilds 611: Went out one fine sunny morning about the first of June, and thought, by jiminy, the whole ground was moving. Ten million hoppers to the square yard.at by jiminy! (excl.) under jiminy!, excl.
Western Wilds 186: In fourteen minutes they went through the Chewses and their party like alkali water through a Johnny Raw from the States.at Johnny Raw, n.
Western Wilds 114: I like San Francisco for its variety. [...] there are French, Italian, and Spanish quarters, and not far off Kanakas, and ever-present Chinese.at Kanaka, n.
Western Wilds 187: They double-quicked into town and lit in generally.at light into (v.) under light, v.1
Western Wilds 45: He joined the Vigilantes, and had the pleasure of presiding at a ‘neck-tie sociable’ where two of the men who had robbed him were hanged.at necktie party (n.) under necktie, n.
Western Wilds 349: Was it not more of an honor to be the ‘bishop’s fourth’ [...] than the ‘slavery’ of a poor mechanic, to ‘nigger it on love and starvation?’ [DA].at nigger it (v.) under nigger, n.1
Western Wilds 183: And as for whiskey, wh-e-u-w! It was sod corn barefooted. The valley-tan these Mormons make ain’t nowhere.at nowhere, adj.
Western Wilds 38: He offered him fifty thousand for it, and the feller stood him off for seventy-five thousand.at stand off, v.
Western Wilds 185: ‘You tell an infernal lie,’ bawled the preacher, and they clinched. Well, of course a thin Boston bran-bread chap had no show agin one o’ our corn-fed men.at no show under show, n.
Western Wilds 37: They put me in jail – socked me right in with them two Hodges.at sock, v.1
Western Wilds 46: He strayed into one of our sporting rooms.at sporting house (n.) under sporting, adj.
Western Wilds 114: The Chinese, seen in every part of California, are never out of sight in the city, [...] the dark alleys lined by cubby-holes, and alive with yellow women.at yellow, adj.
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