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Monthly Rev. Aug. 143: By what enchantment [...] is it that so light-brained, frivolous a people, have been able to extend over the universe, the ruinous and tyrannical empire of its modes?at lightheaded (adj.) under lighthead, n.
Monthly Rev. Aug. 143: By what enchantment [...] is it that so light-brained, frivolous a people, have been able to extend over the universe, the ruinous and tyrannical empire of its modes? Mthly Rev. 31 Appendix 541: Our grosser flesh, a kind of Jack in the box, whose wooden doublet fits him so nicely that every body thinks it alive.at wooden doublet (n.) under wooden, adj.
Monthly Rev. Apr. 326: Thus Daniel Burges (whose aversion to the whore of Babylon was always uppermost, whatever was the subject of his pulpit- discourses) seldom or never concluded a sermon till he had taken ‘a whack at the pope’ as he himself expressed it .at have a whack at (v.) under whack, n.1
Mthly Rev. June 209: Let not, then, that clergyman complain who is called over the coals for wearing coloured stockings and dirty boots.at call over the coals (v.) under call, v.
Mthly Rev. [Index] Half-cracked people, instances of, 155.at half-cracked (adj.) under cracked, adj.
Mthly Rev. 86 43: The allowance of food is fourteen ounces of bread per day, and one pound of the ‘clods and stickings of beef’ twice per week.at clods and stickings (n.) under clod, n.1
Monthly Rev. Mar. 331: A Yorkshireman is generally said to be equal in shrewdness and cunning to any other man: and his keenness has become proverbial, in the expression ‘A Yorkshire bite’.at Yorkshire bite (n.) under Yorkshire, adj.
Monthly Rev. V 585: ‘The devil's cure to you!’ said Skelton, instantly firing his second pistol.at devil’s cure! (excl.) under devil, n.
Monthly Rev. Feb. 178: He may bring them up, if he chooses, in the popular arts of breaking windows, prostrating the guardians of the night, instituting weekly series of rows in peaceful neighbourhoods; [...] the elegant amusements of ‘Hell and Tommy’.at hell and (little) tommy (n.) under hell, n.
Monthly Rev. Oct. 332: Further, there are cultural and social subdivisions: the jazz hippies, the folk-niks, and the pot-heads.at -nik, sfx
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