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Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery choose

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[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 71: Choose a chief before you start, A bully bold as Bonaparte.
at bully, n.1
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 30: They to Tyburn swore they’d cart him.
at cart, v.
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 66: Perkinism [...] had its birth and education Quite at the fag-end of Creation!
at fag end, n.
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 81: And couldst thou, pertinacious B-----, But maul these mutton heads, most sadly.
at mutton-head, n.
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 71: Step forth thou Potent Prince of Puffers! Thou modern Hercules of huffers!
at huffer, n.1
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 91: And e’en old women bravely wield Their jordans like Achilles’ shield.
at jordan, n.
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 54: That thus when Russians logger-headed, Were kill’d by Frenchmen ever dreaded, Darwin rejoic’d the filthy creatures Would serve for stock to make musquitoes.
at logger-headed (adj.) under loggerhead, n.
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 62: Madam Hoaxhoax, in her glass, Beholding what it truly was, Exclaim’d ‘My last new wig I’ll burn up’.
at Miss, n.
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 90: To rattle like a roll of vellum, And occiput of every numhead To sound as loud as kettle-drum head.
at numbhead (n.) under numb, adj.
[UK] ‘C. Caustic’ Petition Against Tractorising Trumpery 49: A spruce young patent-monger Contrives to wheedle simple ninnies.
at wheadle, v.
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