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City of the Saints 166: ‘What is his general character?’ ‘Letter A. No. 1.’.at A-1, adj.
City of the Saints 166: ‘What is his general character?’ ‘Letter A. No. 1.’. City of the Saints 192: The Abrahams of Great Salt Lake City are mere ‘sham Abrams.’.at sham-abram, n.
City of the Saints 29: His locks, whose ends are cuffled inwards, with a fascinating sausage-like roll not unlike the cockney ‘aggrawator.’.at aggerawator, n.
City of the Saints 205: A Mormon lad [...] had been trained to go in a ‘sorter’ jibbing and somewhat uncomfortable ‘argufying,’ ‘highfalutin’’ way.at argufy, v.
City of the Saints 227: I’m intire mad as a meat axe.at mad as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
City of the Saints 239: He had redeemed his vow by reappearing in cuerpo, with gestures so maniacal that the sulky Indians had all fled, declaring him to be ‘bad medicine’.at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
City of the Saints 74: Their only dress, when they were not in ‘birth-day suit,’ was the Indian languti.at birthday suit, n.
City of the Saints 78: She had forgotten her ‘fixins’ [...] a reticule containing a ‘bishop,’ a comb and a pomatum pot.at bishop, n.2
City of the Saints 3: The political necessity for another ‘Indian botheration,’ as editors call it.at botheration, n.
City of the Saints 111: The driver [...] grumbled certain western facetiæ concerning ‘hearty-chokes and caper sauce.’.at hearty choke (with caper sauce), n.
City of the Saints 227: Can’t come that ’ere tarnal carryin’ on over me.at carrying-on, n.
City of the Saints 23: The aspect of her family was a ‘caution to snakes’.at caution, n.
City of the Saints 227: I’ll be chewed up if I don’t run over you.at chew up, v.
City of the Saints 198: The floor was knobby, the mosquitoes seemed rather to enjoy the cold, and the banks [i.e. sleeping benches] swarmed with ‘chinches.’ [Note] The chinch or chints is the Spanish chinche [...] In other parts of the United States the English bug is called a bed-bug.at chinch, n.1
City of the Saints 30: He can do nothing without whisky, which he loves to call tarantula-juice, strychnine, red-eye, corn-juice, Jersey lightning, leg-stretcher, ‘tangle-leg,’ and many other hard and grotesque names.at corn juice (n.) under corn, n.1
City of the Saints 410: The differences between the often Dutch courage of a bowie-knife squabble and the moral fortitude that stands firm in the presence of famine.at Dutch courage, n.
City of the Saints 422: A bear-trap [...] a dwarf hut, with one or two doors, which fall when cuffy tugs the bait from the figure of 4 in the centre.at cuffy, n.
City of the Saints 16: Behind, instead of [a] dicky, is a kind of boot where passengers’ boxes are stored.at dicky, n.3
City of the Saints 247: The people came [...] to see the mail-coach, as if it were the ‘Derby dilly’.at dilly, n.1
City of the Saints 101: A large quantity of ‘dog-leg’ tobacco and red pepper is then added.at dog-leg (n.) under dog, n.2
City of the Saints 99: The beauty was married to a long, lean Down-Easter.at Down-easter, n.
City of the Saints 18: The dirty brown silt which pollutes [...] the pellucid waters of the ‘Big Drink’ [note] A ‘Drink’ is any river; the Big Drink is the Mississippi.at big drink (n.) under drink, n.1
City of the Saints 18: [note] A ‘Drink’ is any river; the Big Drink is the Mississippi.at drink, n.1
City of the Saints 65: Having sounded our reveillée [...] we proceeded by means of an ‘eye-opener,’ which even the abstemious judge could not decline. [Ibid.] 215: Champagne, bottled cocktail, ‘eye-opener,’ and other liquors.at eye-opener, n.1
City of the Saints 78: She had forgotten her ‘fixins’ [...] a reticule containing a ‘bishop,’ a comb and a pomatum pot.at fixings, n.1
in City of the Saints 114: Of gougers fierce, the eyes that pierce, the fiercest gouger he.at gouger, n.
City of the Saints 171: The station boasts [...] a post-office, a store, and of course a grog-shop.at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
City of the Saints 545: We acknowledged his civility with a ‘here’s how,’ and drank Kentucky-fashion.at here’s how!, excl.
City of the Saints 165: A Hoosier (native of Indiana) was called upon the stand [etc.].at hoosier, n.
City of the Saints 193: The serious resolution not to do anything so mean as to ‘leap the twig.’.at hop the twig, v.
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