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[UK] Becon Early Works Parker Soc. (1843) 202: He should the simple and plain people [...] not to deceive them [or] to poll and pill them.
at pill and poll, v.
[UK] Becon Early Works (1843) 244: But to what point came all his proud cracks?
at crack, n.1
[UK] Becon Early Works (1843) 253: O insatiable dogs! O crafty foxes! What craft, deceit, subtility, and falsehood use merchants in buying and selling!
at dog, n.2
[UK] Becon Early Works Parker Soc. (1843) 253: O insatiable dogs! O crafty foxes! What craft, deceit, subtility, and falsehood use merchants in buying and selling!
at fox, n.1
[UK] Becon Early Works Parker Soc. (1843) 253: What a sport they have to deceive a simple hob and plain fellow of the country!
at hob, n.
[UK] Becon Early Works Parker Soc. (1843) 276: He cannot play placebo.
at play placebo (v.) under placebo, n.
[UK] Becon Early Works Parker Soc. (1843) 216: He is not ashamed to suffer kings and emperors to kiss and lick his pocky feet.
at pocky, adj.
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