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The Woman of Honor choose

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[UK] Cleland Woman of Honor I 158: It is something in the low stile of your old college-wit of bamboozzling.
at bamboozle, v.
[UK] Cleland Woman of Honor I 173: She soon lost her bread and service at Mrs. Mabberley’s [...] being with child by him.
at bread, n.1
[UK] Cleland Woman of Honor III 194: If I remember right, he was one of your danglers, till you drove him from you.
at dangler, n.
[UK] Cleland Woman of Honor III 194: Billy Grinly, that egrarious feather-headed fop.
at feather-headed, adj.
[UK] Cleland Woman of Honor III 29: A poor mutton-headed flock, ready to follow any bell-weather.
at mutton-headed, adj.
[UK] Cleland Woman of Honor III 95: A greasy unctuous perspiration for ever on the surface of his phyz.
at phiz, n.1
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