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The Grand Babylon Hotel choose

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[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 57: We’re in the middle of a rather queer business.
at business, n.
[UK] A. Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel 111: ‘D – n!’ said Rocco.
at damn!, excl.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 96: I could have taken my dying davy that he would have been here yesterday at the latest.
at davy, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 226: There would be the dickens of an upset in New York – a sort of grand universal slump in my holdings.
at dickens, the, phr.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 58: Gemini! By the beard of the prophet, it is!
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 94: There was a gent present at my ball that I didn’t ask.
at gent, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 34: ‘Great Scott!’ he said. ‘It’s three o’clock.’.
at great Scott! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 165: ‘Hang the Chilean Government, Mr Levi,’ exclaimed the Prince.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 226: He’s tried to commit suicide – he’s so hipped.
at hipped, adj.1
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 207: With the aid of a mudlark – a mere barge boy, who probably had no more right on the barge than Jules himself.
at mudlark, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 114: I am not implicated in the murder of this unfortunate nincompoop.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 74: ‘It’s O.K., I suppose,’ said the man.
at OK, adj.
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 141: ‘You’ve got a bit of pluck,’ he said, ‘but it won’t help you.’.
at pluck, n.1
[UK] A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 48: ‘Ah! I see,’ said the Prince; ‘this is one of your American “strokes”. You have bought to sell again.’.
at stroke, n.2
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