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Memoirs of the US Secret Service 47: He [...] as he himself asserts, ‘escaped as easy as falling off a log!’.at easy as falling off a log, adj.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 47: He [...] as he himself asserts, ‘escaped as easy as falling off a log!’. Memoirs of the US Secret Service viii: Sham Abraham, to play ill; to pretend to be sick.at sham abram, v.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 99: The Chief had hardly been in conclave with him fifteen minutes before he ‘acknowledged the corn,’ owned up fairly.at acknowledge the corn, v.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service iv: All There, to be on time, on hand, ‘up to the mark’.at all there, adj.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 203: This conduct on Tim’s part convinced the crowd, instanter, that he was ‘all right’.at all right, adj.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service v: Dead Open-and-Shut, a pretty sure thing; a clear fact.at open and shut, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 207: By G—, you’ve gone and done it, old fellow, this time. You’ve got me where the ha’r is short!at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 79: I’m dead broke, sure’s yer live.at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 120: If all that is stated so freely about Brockway is true, he ought long since to have been ‘put away’.at put away, v.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 129: Chief Whitley [...] followed out a little plan he laid to bag this tough old boy.at bag, v.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 401: Sailor dance-houses, and underground ‘diving-bells,’ where women and whisky were the marketable wares.at diving-bell, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 98: It was a ‘big thing,’ and a hellabulloo followed, next morning.at big thing, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 98: ‘Take another “snifter”, Bill,’ suggested Drake, pouring out half a tumbler full of the bingo.at bingo, n.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 79: Jake Buck applied to the ex-state prison bird, to know if he could sell him some coney.at bird, n.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 219: In the early days, when the ‘bishop’ or ‘bustle’ [...] first came into vogue.at bishop, n.2
Memoirs of the US Secret Service iv: Bleed, to cheat, over-reach, victimise, or extort money from.at bleed, v.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 89: Bill was convicted, though he boasted his ability to beat the Chief ‘bloke’ of the Secret Service.at bloke, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 98: The ‘fly-cop’ [...] manoeuvering to draw him out, and gather from him various important hints that he succeeded in obtaining, ere Bill was aware that he had ‘blowed’ upon himself.at blow, v.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 401: The vilest quarters of New York city [...] where women and whiskey were the marketable wares, and fractional currency (if ever looked at by the customers) was seen with eyes blinded by the ‘blue ruin’ of those depraved districts.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 52: I always had bogus money in plenty [...] I controlled the market for ‘coney’. [Ibid.] 92: A few dollars of his hard-earned good money (mixed generally with a sprinkling of the bogus).at bogus, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 181: They had prepared to throw a bombshell into the enemy’s camp in New York, which would astonish him, at a very early day.at bombshell, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 415: You’re makin good time towards the bone-orchard – you are.at bone orchard (n.) under bone, n.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 344: He ‘would buy three thousand dollars (for $1,500) of them, every day in the week, if he could get ’em.’ And so he takes a hand in this nice little boodle game.at boodle, n.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 342: [In the spring of 1869] there was then being extensively played in Philadelphia and New York a noted ‘confidence’ or swindling game, technically known to the Detectives and the Police authorities as the ‘$5 Boodle Game’.at boodle, n.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 347: He ventured to collar Wightman, knowing him, of old, to be grand Sachem among these ‘boodlers’ or confidence men.at boodler, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 99: He too was a constant frequenter of the tap-room and the ‘boozing-ken’.at bousing-ken, n.
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 90: He had ‘boxed the compass’ pretty effectually, thereabouts, and had passed his time in various attempts to earn his livelihood.at box one’s/the compass (v.) under box, v.2
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 79: I hain’t got a brad to my name.at brad, n.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 28: They’re all round us, yere – thicker’n flies ’round a treacle bung-hole.at bunghole, n.1
Memoirs of the US Secret Service 198: Another sturdy and accomplished rogue [...] in the felonious secret occupation of cracksman, safe-blower, bank-burster, and counterfeiter.at burster, n.1
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