![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 133: A perpetual blister; – alias, a sociable next-door-neighbour, who has taken a violent affection for you.at blister, n.1
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 133: A perpetual blister; – alias, a sociable next-door-neighbour, who has taken a violent affection for you. Miseries of Human Life (1826) 250: Sure, fuddling a trade is Not lovely in Ladies, Since it thus can disguise a Soft sylph like Eliza.at disguise, v.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 250: Sure, fuddling a trade is / Not lovely in Ladies, / Since it thus can disguise a / Soft sylph like Eliza.at fuddle, v.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 249: Not ‘half,’ (we discover), / But wholly ‘seas over’.at half seas over, adj.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 212: Sitting for hours before a smoky chimney, like a Hottentot in a kraal.at Hottentot, n.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 111: Visiting an awful Ruin, in the company of a Romp, of one sex, or a Hun, of the other.at Hun, n.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 100: A Jemmy Jessamy lover [...] on one knee, in the dirt, before a coy May-pole Miss.at jemmy jessamy, adj.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 101: Your left eye sorer than ever [...] since he first took shelter under your ‘pent-house lid’.at penthouse-nab, n.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 216: Every dish...being served up on the kitchen table, with a set-out of crockery from the same apartment.at set-out, n.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 247: At the screams and the bruises, Anne and Sam from their snoozes Start – and take the fair Swabber For a night-coming robber.at swabber, n.
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 96: Bidding a long adieu to Bedlam in the shape of an inn [...] and a travelling trap for a sitting room!at trap, n.2
no more results