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Blackbirding In The South Pacific 74: Catch ’em alive [...] A dead nigger isn’t worth a curse.at not worth a curse, phr.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 74: Catch ’em alive [...] A dead nigger isn’t worth a curse. Blackbirding In The South Pacific 205: I am one of those judges he speaks about so handsomely, and, please the pigs! I’ll have the pleasure of hanging him yet.at an’t please the pigs, phr.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 9: This old weary bag of bones.at bag of bones, n.1
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 104: They knew if they did I should get money and go off to some ship, and that they didn’t want, but liked to keep me on the beach to work for almost nothing.at on the beach under beach, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 77: When all was over, we took the few birds we had caught down to the boats. [Ibid.] 126: We next searched through house after house [...] tying up all the blackbirds we found.at blackbird, n.1
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 44: Bruce, you killed the best blackbirder in the whole Pacific.at blackbirder, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 45: This trade is called blackbirding.at blackbirding, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 104: I looked round sharp, and, bless me! there was my old boss.at bless me! (excl.) under bless, v.1
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 134: I mean to live, if I have to eat you, boots and all. Understand?at boots (and all) (adv.) under boot, n.2
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 27: ‘Lug the d——d black scoundrel down to the “sweat-box.”’ [...] this sweat-box, as they call it, is a sort of cell right down below in the bilge [...] pitch dark, and hot as hell.at sweat-box, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 19: That scamp of a mate sold us to a crimp.at crimp, n.2
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 108: I don’t want no rowdy chaps in my ship; they annoy me, and then I get bad and fighty.at fighty, adj.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 76: Once I really thought I saw the ‘old gentleman’ in the middle of the flames.at old gentleman, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 27: Golly! how that coward did run! [Ibid.] 106: My golly! he looked so very ferocious.at golly!, excl.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 95: By golly, boss! I’ll do everything you want.at by golly! (excl.) under golly!, excl.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 18: I can feel my bursting head, from the hocussing I had gone through. [Ibid.] 43: They had been hocussed in grog shanties on shore, kidnapped and sold to the ship, just as I had been at Liverpool.at hocus, v.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 70: By the Holy! I’ll kill the first man who fires a shot.at by the holy! (excl.) under holy, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 133: You’re good now, ain’t you? Of course you are! Then you can afford to go off the hooks first. [...] but I require a little more time to repent.at off the hooks under hook, n.1
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 42: Can’t you see I am sleeping? And I want more; so hook it.at hook, v.1
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 223: The fish came again close alongside of us, and before you could have said ‘Jack Robinson’ the harpoon was stuck deep into its back.at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 250: But how the deuce did you get amongst that lot? They are the worse gang in the town.at lot, n.1
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 43: ‘Well my lad, how goes it?’ ‘Main bad,’ said I.at main, adv.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 10: Murder was their fun—man, woman, or child, it didn’t matter a rap.at not matter a rap (v.) under rap, n.2
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 59: [He] had too much ‘savee’ to kill the goose who laid the golden eggs.at savvy, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 15: We all savee better now.at savvy, v.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 22: If I kept out of his way, he would go for me all the same, call me a skulker.at skulker, n.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 26: The man laughed and answered, ‘Snowball!’.at snowball, n.2
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 128: I always get square with my friends before I have done with them [...] His ‘getting square’ meant cutting throats; and if he didn’t lie, it would have taken a big ship to carry all the people he’d ‘squared’ up to date.at get square (with) (v.) under square, adj.
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 13: ‘Those square-headed Dutchmen,’ as we call all Germans.at squareheaded, adj.2
Blackbirding In The South Pacific 35: If a man got stretched in a grog shop, the ‘boss’ would only throw him out into the road, whether dead or alive.at stretch, v.
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