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Living Picture of London 162: To penetrate the back slum of a ‘house of resort’.at back slum (n.) under back, adj.2
Living Picture of London 162: To penetrate the back slum of a ‘house of resort’. Living Picture of London 26: What to the heel do you stash at? I’ll chive you.at chiv, v.
Living Picture of London 263: The charms of nine-pins – whether this be of skittles, knock-’em-downs, bowl-and-tip, dutch-pins, or the more sturdy four-corners.at knock-’em-downs, n.
Living Picture of London 162: To penetrate the back slum of a ‘house of resort’.at house of resort (n.) under house, n.1
Living Picture of London 159: Another of the same stamp had offered him ‘hush-money,’ on his ‘kicking up a bubbery’ at the public-house, where it happened.at hush money, n.
Living Picture of London 159: He repeated the same offence in Westminster, was detected in flagrante delictu, but got off for a comparatively small sum [...] and betook himself off to Paris, the Boulevards among, – fit place for such a Jocelyn-monster.at Jocelyn, n.
Living Picture of London 15: The very sight of a countryman, either yokel or joskin .at joskin, n.
Living Picture of London 159: Another of the same stamp had offered him ‘hush-money,’ on his ‘kicking up a bubbery’ at the public-house, where it happened.at kick up, v.
Living Picture of London 27: To the practices and necessities of the coachmen and guard’s private trade, we owe the increasing number and fresh supply of hangers-on, whose first business has been the performing fetch-and-carry services for those knights of the whip.at ...the whip under knight of the..., n.
Living Picture of London 241: The person calling for ‘man’ or ‘woman’.at man, n.
Living Picture of London 159: A soldier [...] whose nickname Nancy Cooper designated his character [...] was hanged at Newgate-door for accusing a certain gentleman, in the Strand of a beastly offence, said to have been committed in St. James’s Park.at nancy, n.
Living Picture of London 159: A soldier [...] whose nickname Nancy Cooper designated his character [...] was hanged at Newgate-door [...] that which conferred upon him his Nanny-title, as well as that which cost him his last fling; but by his demand for hush-money, he flung his life away.at nanny, n.1
Living Picture of London 44: You’ll soon be bowled out, I’ll pound it.at pound, v.1
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