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Blue Cap, the Bushranger choose

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[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 13/1: If you aren’t an out-and-out idiot you’ll follow him sharp.
at out-and-out, adj.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 63/2: The stalls of the tag-rag and bobtail who attend the races.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 591/21: Come and take a ball at my expense.
at ball, n.2
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 97/1: Alick and Charlie had a bit of a barney, which ended up a regular, stand-up fight.
at barney, n.2
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 1/1: She is laden with ‘canary birds,’ which she is exporting to a very healthy part of [...] Van Dieman’s Land.
at canary-bird, n.1
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 15/2: Den dey both blazes away.
at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 50/2: Come, blow this yarning – my throat’s dry.
at blow, v.2
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 32/2: Fido de sweetest lilly bow-wow.
at bow-wow, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 41/1: The rowdy bushman who had just had his year’s wages paid him [...] was going in for a ‘bust’.
at go in for a bust (v.) under bust, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 1/1: The sudden gales, called Southerly Busters.
at buster, n.1
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 60/2: Come, none of your Charley pork with me, Mr. Hogan.
at charley pork, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 32/1: John Chinaman [...] grinned and bore it, as it was the custom of his countrymen to do.
at John Chinaman, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 16/1: The heathen Chinee performed a grotesque dance.
at Chinee, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 61/2: You may judge from the down the police have on him he’ll get Cockatoo, as sure as eggs are eggs.
at cockatoo, n.2
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 53/2: I be cussed!
at cuss, v.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 13/1: Now you dod-rotted skunks, your purses [...] and rings.
at dod-rotted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 41/1: The man [...] handed over to Jacky his thirty [...] one pound notes, telling him to ‘let him know when that was knocked down’.
at knock down, v.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 96/1: Swell dunnage he had brought with him from California.
at dunnage, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 65/1: First thing we want [...] is a feed.
at feed, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 62/2: Hallo! Bungy, who gave you that flash shirt?
at flash, adj.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 96/2: A short distance from where we were camped there was a grog shanty.
at grog shanty (n.) under grog, n.1
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 51/1: Hallo! what’s that?
at hello!, excl.1
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 4/1: We’re near out o’ grub, and as for lush, why, that’s all a chance.
at lush, n.1
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 31/1: Why, that doughty antagonist was not a human being, but an old man kangaroo.
at old man, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 16/1: It’s my matey, Ab Sim.
at matey, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 2/1: Murder! a convict escaping!
at murder!, excl.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 4/2: Let the spalpeen go his way.
at spalpeen, n.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 97/1: Alick and Charlie had a bit of a barney, which ended up a regular, stand-up fight.
at stand-up, adj.
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 37/2: ‘Stash that row, yer fools’ he roared.
at stash, v.1
[Aus] J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 59/1: The landlord [...] stood behind the bar, serving what is familiarly termed ‘stringy-bark’.
at stringybark, n.
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