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The Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole choose

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[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 22: Let his Wife be full brisk, / Bound, caper, and frisk, / Till she foams at the Thing that’s below, Sir.
at foamin’ at the gash, phr.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 31: [written by a Collanantee Negro] If you dis pafh do walkee / Tan here, and tankee, tankee, / About dis Whitee Blackee / Jackee Cole. / Dis Whitee, goodee Goodee, / So lof de Blackee body.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 8: He loved to drink out of a Black-Jack in a dark Corner.
at black jack, n.1
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 22: Let his Wife be full brisk, / Bound, caper, and frisk, / Till she foams at the Thing that’s below, Sir.
at brisk, adj.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 19: In the Mornings we’re all Fortune-hunters, / Then spend half our Crop, / And go to the Hop, / And the Night we all spend with the Bunters.
at bunter, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 15: He began in the Kitchen, and continued rifling her Charms all the way up to the Garret.
at charms, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 19: The Night we all spend with the Bunters [...] Drink away and rejoice, / Since for Supper we’re sure of a Coney.
at cony, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 19: In the Mornings we’re all Fortune-hunters, / Then spend half our Crop, / And go to the Hop, / And the Night we all spend with the Bunters.
at crap, n.1
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 23: He agreed, and with his Black-o’-top Doxy return’d to London.
at doxy, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 16: Cole thought it was time to go to Breakfast, and treated his Master with black Jack full of Humty Dumty.
at humpty-dumpty, n.1
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 18: I’ll dress like a Gentleman and dine at Hell in the Palace-Yard, and sup at the Devil in Fleet-Street.
at hell, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 3: His Intrigues with several Black-ey’d Girls at Black-Mary’s-Hole.
at hole, n.1
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 19: In the Mornings we’re all Fortune-hunters, / Then spend half our Crop, / And go to the Hop, / And the Night we all spend with the Bunters.
at hop, n.1
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 14: I give Information next Morning to each merry Wanton, and get well paid both for Hush-Money and Conjuration.
at hush money, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 19: Lay thy leg over and black ’em all.
at lift a leg over (v.) under leg, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 22: Now honest John Cole, / Has got a black Hole, / For himself or his Man to creep into, / Let him pull up his Strength / With his Man at full length, / For his Marriage has made it no sin to.
at old man, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 27: If the Devil is Black, as some folks say, then is our Friend very safe if old Nicholas and he should meet together.
at Old Nick, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 27: If Old Scratch should be White, as the Blacks say he is, then there will be the Devil to pay between them.
at old Scratch (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 12: I like your Phiz.
at phiz, n.1
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 20: Tho’ he might have felt out her Sex before, nothing now but Matrimony wou’d go down with her.
at sex, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 22: Let her brisk up her Tail / When he handles his Flail.
at tail, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 22: Let his Wife be full brisk, / Bound, caper, and frisk, / Till she foams at the Thing that’s below, Sir.
at thing, n.
[UK] Delightful Adventures of Honest John Cole 16: Thus he went on many Days, tumbling over all the Girls.
at tumble, v.1
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