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[UK] J.B. Burges Riches I ii: I sent the prison-bird, poor Master Luke, / This morning for them.
at bird, n.1
[UK] J.B. Burges Riches IV iii: There they’re all sitting, with your hopeful clerks, / Eating and drinking, gaily quaffing bumpers / To their kind patron’s health.
at bumper, n.2
[UK] J.B. Burges Riches V iii: Cool, specious villain!
at cool, adj.
[UK] J.B. Burges Riches I iii: He is a merchant, sir, / Who would increase his heap.
at heap, n.1
[UK] J.B. Burges Riches I iii: And do you think, / Thus like the Turk to throw your handkerchief, / And thus grace submissive beauty by your choice?
at turk, n.1
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