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John Brown’s Body choose

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[US] S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 151: A slow voice said Reach for the sky, Yank, or I’ll nachully drill yuh. His hands flew up.
at drill, v.1
[US] S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body 367: You ought to be et. We’ll eat you up to the house when it’s mealin’ time .
at eat, v.
[US] S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body 257: The Johnnies is there! [DA].
at johnny, n.1
[US] S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 40: When the news of Beckhams death spread from bar to bar, It was like putting loco-weed into whiskey.
at locoweed, n.
[US] S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 73: Seward and Chase’ll do for my pair of pumpkins .
at pumpkin, n.
[US] S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 260: Stumpy Grant is a mole / Gnawing at Vicksberg.
at stumpy, n.2
[US] S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 72: Lincoln, six feet one in his stocking feet, [...] Whose wit was a coonskin sack of dry, tall tales.
at tall story (n.) under tall, adj.
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