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Card I 61: Down she set herself, Sukey, in an easy Chair, sighing and complaining with insinite Discomposure, beating the Devil's Tattoo with her Foot upon the Frame of a Table incessantly for two Hours.at devil’s tattoo (n.) under devil, n.
Card I 61: Down she set herself, Sukey, in an easy Chair, sighing and complaining with insinite Discomposure, beating the Devil's Tattoo with her Foot upon the Frame of a Table incessantly for two Hours. Card (1974) 247: Every one agreed that he must be an insufferable booby.at booby, n.1
Card (1974) 280: ‘What a card!’ said one, laughing joyously. ‘He’s a rare ’un, no mistake.’.at card, n.2
Card (1974) 250: It was felt that either Denry [...] had been married before, unknown to his Nellie, and had been ‘carrying on’ at Geneva.at carry on, v.
Card (1974) 266: ‘Should I be the youngest mayoress?’ ‘Not by chalks,’ said he. ‘Huskinson’s sister was only sixteen.’.at by chalks under chalk, n.1
Card (1974) 175: As she’s going out charing, why can’t you have her and put a bit of bread into her mouth?at char, v.
Card (1974) 267: ‘You are nothing but a cuckoo,’ Denry pleasantly informed her.at cuckoo, n.1
Card (1974) 232: I’ve got the dibs, of course.at dibbs, n.
Card (1974) 265: Appendicitis, of course. Operation – domino! All over in three days.at domino!, excl.
Card (1974) 71: She had meant to do what is called in the Five Towns ‘a moonlight flit’.at moonlight flit, n.
Card (1974) 277: Useless for solemn experts to point out that he had simply been larking for the gallery, and that the result was a shocking fluke – Callear’s reputation was established.at fluke, n.2
Card (1974) 181: When Denry reached home that evening, Mrs Machin, as the phrase is, ‘gave it him’.at give it to, v.
Card (1974) 227: Have you got a motor?at motor, n.
Card (1974) 63: I wasn’t going to have Fearns coming the duke over me!at come the nob (v.) under nob, n.2
Card (1974) 265: It appears as if Toronto was a sort of paradise. But you can see the old thing prefers Bursley.at old thing, n.
Card (1974) 156: He caught the mule ‘one’ over the head with his whip.at one, n.1
Card (1974) 125: As for setting the town on fire, or painting it scarlet, he seemed to have lost the trick of that.at paint the town red, v.
Card (1974) 39: Eh, you’re a queer ’un, Mester Machin!at queer, adj.
Card (1974) 234: ‘We’d better be shunting,’ said Denry.at shunt, v.
Card (1974) 201: it had not occured to him that an immense and serious effort for the general weal was going to be blocked by a gang of tatterdemalions.at tatterdemallion, n.
Card (1974) 101: The little thing must have spent a part of the previous afternoon preparing it.at thing, n.
Card (1974) 226: ‘A couple of thou’,’ said Cotterill, reflectively.at thou, n.
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