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[UK] J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 46: And as he was devoted to his books, everything was in apple-pie order.
at apple-pie order, n.
[UK] J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 39: I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there.
at blame, adj.
[UK] J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 38: Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-half-penny river steamboat with a penny whistle attached!
at twopenny-halfpenny, adj.
[UK] J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 75: Why in the name of all the gnawing devils of hunger they didn’t go for us – they were thirty to five – and have a good tuck in for once, amazes me now when I think of it.
at tuck-in, n.
[UK] Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 49: A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.
at run the show (v.) under show, n.
[UK] J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 31: They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect.
at squeeze, n.1
[UK] J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 81: The fusillade below stopped short, as I had foreseen when the squirts got empty.
at squirt, n.
[UK] J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 57: You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me.
at straight, adj.1
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