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Cometh Up as a Flower choose

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[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 323: ‘Since this is my chamber, and not yours —’ ‘You’d thank me to “absquatulate,” as the Yankees say.’.
at absquatulate, v.
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 301: He was sick as a cat, I dare say, crossing; he’s an awful bad sailor.
at …a cat (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 205: Dolly was not a fine woman as they say, at all; not beef to the heels, by any means; in a grazier’s eye she would have had no charm whatsoever.
at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 52: ‘He is not Manchester or Brummagem,’ said I.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 52: Those may be Manchester or Brummagem manners, but they won’t go down here, I can tell him.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 394: Like little naughty boys whose pockets have been found bulging with [...] the succulent bull’s-eye in church.
at bull’s eye, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 14: Some counterjumper from Nantford, probably.
at counter-jumper, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 292: So is Lady Lancaster; entertaining kindred frumps and foozles in Eaton Square.
at foozle, n.
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 10: I gambolled up to him in a kid-like manner.
at kiddish (adj.) under kid, n.1
[UK] R. Broughton Cometh up as a Flower 130: Agincourt a fiddle! Does the knowledge that one lot of mouldy old men poked another mouldy old lot in the ribs [...] make me feel the draughts less, or you look less like a scarecrow.
at mouldy, adj.
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