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The Clandestine Marriage choose

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[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage I ii: I shall set out with as many diamonds as any body in town, except [...] Polly What-d’ye-call-it, lord Squander’s kept mistress.
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage II ii: He is cock o’de game, ma foy!
at cock of the game (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage III ii: Be cool, child! you shall be lady Melvil.
at cool, adj.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage Epilogue: col. trill: Oh, damn it! mrs. quaver: Damn it! first lady: Damn it! miss crochet: Damn it! lord minum: Damn it!
at damn it!, excl.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage III i: What the deuce is all this?
at what the deuce...?, phr.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage III ii: I’ll ladyship her indeed! a little creppin, cantin – She shan’t be the better for a farden of my money.
at farden, n.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage V ii: I wonder at your impurence, Mr. Brush, to use me in this manner.
at imperence, n.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage I ii: This ridiculous love! we must put a stop to it. It makes a perfect natural of the girl.
at natural, n.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage V ii: I’d sooner die than peach.
at peach, v.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage III ii: My brother Heidelberg was a warm man, a very warm man; and died worth a plumb at least.
at plum, n.2
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage III i: Here we are – hard at it – paving the road to matrimony [...] we shall soon set pudding-sleeves to work.
at pudding sleeves (n.) under pudding, n.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage I i: There’s no stuff in the case; no money, Lovewell!
at stuff, n.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage III ii: My brother Heidelberg was a warm man, a very warm man; and died worth a plumb at least.
at warm, adj.
[UK] Colman & Garrick Clandestine Marriage V ii: That my lord Ogleby’s, and that my lady What-d’ye-call-em’s.
at whatd’youcallhim, n.
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