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[US] A. Bierce ‘The Birth of the Rail’ Black Beetles in Amber 260: It is bad medicine for both.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] A. Bierce ‘A Vision of Climate’ Black Beetles in Amber 143: Throw up your beaver and throw down your pen!
at beaver, n.1
[US] A. Bierce ‘A Patter Song’ Black Beetles in Amber 219: This pig-headed, big-headed, singularly self-conceited Governor Nonwaterman.
at big-headed (adj.) under big head, n.1
[US] A. Bierce ‘Peaceable Expulsion’ Black Beetles in Amber 246: O pig-tail Celestial [...] Abominable Chinee!
at celestial, n.
[US] A. Bierce ‘A Word to the Unwise’ Black Beetles in Amber 126: Charles Main [...] attend / With friendly ear the chit-chat of a friend.
at chitchat, n.1
[US] A. Bierce ‘A Cheating Preacher’ Black Beetles in Amber 148: When you ‘deal damnation round’ [...] Deal, and let all accept what you allot ’em. But, blast you! you are dealing from the bottom!
at deal off the bottom of the deck (v.) under deal, v.
[US] A. Bierce ‘Slickens’ Black Beetles in Amber 239: It feeds my jaw, It crams my maw.
at maw, n.
[US] A. Bierce ‘Aspirants Three’ Black Beetles in Amber 250: I’ll fight [...] Here’s at you, nosegay!
at nosegay (n.) under nose, n.
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