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The Diamond Necklace choose

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[UK] T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 2/2: It all began to seem Romantic, and your Turpins and Aristos found music in it.
at aristo, n.
[UK] T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 15/2: The untameablest of flies has again buzzed off; in wedlock with M. de Lamotte.
at buzz off, v.
[UK] T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 15/2: We have a face ‘with a certain piquancy,’ the liveliest glib-snappish tongue, the liveliest kittenish manner (not yet hardened into cat-hood) with thirty pounds a year and prospects.
at cat, n.1
[UK] T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 15/2: M. de Lamotte [...] sees good to lay down his fighting-gear (unhappily still only a musket).
at gear, n.
[UK] T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 2/2: Roland [...] got tough beef to chew, or even went dinnerless; was saddle-sick, caluminated, constipated.
at saddle-sick (adj.) under saddle, n.
[UK] T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 15/2: We have a face ‘with a certain piquancy,’ the liveliest glib-snappish tongue, the liveliest kittenish manner.
at snappy, adj.
[UK] T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace 35/1: I behold thee a bright-eyed little Tatterdemalion, begging and gathering sticks in the Bois de Boulogne.
at tatterdemallion, n.
[UK] E. Hahn Diamond 87: He became what was known as a ‘kopje-walloper,’ a man who traveled from one digger’s house to another, buying stones.
at kopje-walloper, n.
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