1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 225: The Thieves’ Kitchen: the Black Jack: the favourite House of Call for the gallows-bird.at gallows-bird, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 160: Mr. Will, a body may ask how much is wanted to get you out.at body, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 92: At forty-five his circumference is great: his neck is swollen; his cheek is red: perhaps his nose has become what is called a Bottle.at bottle-nose, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 273: Behind every villain stands a greater villain. Behind the humble footpad stands the Captain.at captain, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 228: If [...] I choose to bring my fancy man here, am I to ask the Bishop’s leave?at fancy man, n.1
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl II 12: They all crowded round, crying ‘Garnish! garnish!’ I held up my hands: I assured them that I was penniless.at garnish, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl II 104: Is it one of the St. Giles’s company?at St Giles’s breed (n.) under St Giles, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 237: Well, sir, you see us here, as we are, as orderly and peaceful a house as your Worship would desire.at house, n.1
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl II 137: His cringing salute was almost as nauseous as the impudent brutality which he had shown in the Thieves’ Kitchen.at thieves’ kitchen, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl II 98: The soldiers drew up before the door: the mob began throwing stones.at mob, n.2
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 48: What? You have deserted the money-bags?at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 236: Your place stinks, mother [...] and it’s so thick with tobacco and the steam of the punch that a body can’t see across.at mother, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl II 125: ‘Gaol-bird!’ he cried, banging his fist on the table and talking thickly. ‘Newgate-bird—what do you want? Money?’.at Newgate bird (n.) under Newgate, n.
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl I 79: ‘What?’ he cried. ‘You the only son of Sir Peter Halliday [...] the greatest merchant in the City: the heir to a plum—what do I say? Three or four plums at least.’.at plum, n.2
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl II 214: I think I have done pretty well for my mother and for Doll. Their slate is clean again. They can begin fair.at clean (off) the slate (v.) under slate, n.1
1898 W. Besant Orange Girl II 14: I never did like to think that I should be the widow of a Tyburn bird.at Tyburn bird (n.) under Tyburn, n.