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The Fool of Quality choose

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[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 140: I have a great Mind to take your Nuts from you , and to give you a good Beating [...] If I don’t give ye your Belly fulls, why, then, take my Nuts, and welcome.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 140: Their Adversary, had, like Harry, been a Bruiser, from two Years old and upward.
at bruiser, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 205: You stubborn little Villain, I will flea you alive, I will carbonade you on the Spot.
at carbonado, v.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I xiii: The Levee of Duns at your Gate, and the Catchpoles that lurked for You at every Corner.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 165: She ups with her brawny Arm, and gave Susy such a Douse on the Side of the Head.
at douse, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 36: Next to these were two Pair of very ill-mated Turtles.
at turtle (dove), n.1
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 45: Being arrived near the Farmhouse, Nurse, who stood at the Door, saw them approaching and cried out, Gaffer, Gaffer, here comes our Harry with the dumb Gentleman.
at gaffer, n.1
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 204: Here, Jacky, down with his Breeches, and horse him for me directly.
at horse, v.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 37: Beside him sat Miss Lovely.
at lovely, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 204: Jack was a lusty lubberly Boy, about ten Years of Age.
at lubberly, adj.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I iii: [dedication] Your Respectableness, perhaps, hath not duly perpended the Travail, the Toil, the marvellous Drudgery, the Muck, that Dedicators are obliged to pass through, and the Fences of Truth over which they must break.
at muck, n.1
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 39: Our Hero [...] was happily dismounted by the intercepting Petticoats.
at petticoat, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality (1860) I 255: I am quite impatient to be instructed in the policies and constitution of this your petticoat government.
at petticoat government (n.) under petticoat, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I xxviii: A Pox upon their Ambition.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 193: Hearing a little Titter in the neighbouring School Room, he began to smell a Fox.
at smell a mouse (v.) under smell, v.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 165: She ups with her brawny Arm, and gave Susy such a Douse on the Side of the Head.
at up, v.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 247: First there is Sir Bumkin Toilette.
at bumkin (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 187: I never took Bribe or Present of any Kind, or from any Hand; lest Favour or Inclination should insensibly tempt me to cogg, or give a partial Turn to the final Cast.
at cog, v.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 200: My good boys, cries he aloud, you had the Honour to refuse to Quarrel and Tear your Companions and Friends to Pieces, for the dirty Matter of a few Sixpences, and the first Part of your Reward shall be many sixpences.
at dirty, adj.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality (1860) 110: Our lay and ecclesiastical champions for arbitrary power [...] have raised such a dust.
at kick up (a) dust (v.) under dust, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 146: He furiously snatched the Rod from him, and began to lay at Ned with might and main.
at lay into, v.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 150: Says Mrs. Snarle to her Mate, in a languid soft Voice, my Dear, and my Jewel, ’tis all along of you that I am thus haunted.
at jewel, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 244: A hundred and fifty Visits, no less upon rep.
at rep, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 258: At this Rate we shall have Lady Homespun at the very tip Top of the Mode.
at tip-top, n.
[UK] H. Brooke Fool of Quality II 73: I [...] left my Weeds in her Custody.
at weeds, n.
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