1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 27: ‘I know him all to pieces,’ replied the gentleman.at all to pieces, adv.
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 31: ‘Why don’t you get in, boss?’ said one of the men on the dock.at boss, n.2
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco II 189: ‘Speak louder, Bub,’ said one of the vice presidents encouragingly.at bub, n.3
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco II 78: I have kept money enough to have a good drunk.at drunk, n.
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 249: You have got strong syptoms of the fantods; your skin is so tight you can’t shut your eyes without opening your mouth.at fantod, n.
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 188: A jug of rum, of which he drank so constantly, that the delirium tremens, or, as the sailors called it, the horrors, was the consequence.at horrors, the, n.
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 249: ‘Well, it’s Johnny Raw, I know,’ said a foretopman who was the bully.at Johnny Raw, n.
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 249: ‘But it’s Johnny Comelately, aint it, you?’ said a young mizzen topman.at johnny-come-lately (n.) under johnny, n.1
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco II 12: Old poppy Van Krouteater [...] had sold his farm for almost a million of dollars, on the condition that the purchaser should build a town on it, and call it Van Krouteater city.at kraut-eater (n.) under kraut, n.
1839 C.F. Briggs Adventures of Harry Franco I 22: What! you don’t liquorate? [...] Don’t drink, hey?at liquor (up), v.