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Lord Jim 105: It’s as easy as falling off a log. Simply nothing to do; two six-shooters in his belt.at easy as falling off a log, adj.
Lord Jim 105: It’s as easy as falling off a log. Simply nothing to do; two six-shooters in his belt. Lord Jim 77: They looked as though they had been knocking about drunk in gutters for a week.at knock about, v.1
Lord Jim 146: There had been no news for more than a year; they were kicking up no end of an all-fired row amongst themselves, and the river was closed.at all-fired, adj.
Lord Jim 47: The damned bottle-washers stood about listening with their mouths stretched from ear to ear.at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
Lord Jim 147: Jove! wouldn’t do to lose the thing. He meditated gravely over his fist. Had it! Would hang the bally affair round his neck!at bally, adj.
Lord Jim 101: ‘As good as a gold-mine,’ he would exclaim. ‘Right bang in the middle of the Walpole Reefs.’.at bang, adv.
Lord Jim 41: ‘Why? It beats me! Why?’ He slapped his low and wrinkled forehead.at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
Lord Jim 146: This was his introduction to an old chap called Doramin – one of the principal men out there – a big pot – who had been Mr Stein’s friend in that country where he had all these adventures.at big pot, n.
Lord Jim 194: What did Mr Stein mean sending a boy like that to talk big to an old servant?at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
Lord Jim 118: ‘Did the fellow blab – or what?’ I asked.at blab, v.
Lord Jim 215: As if he couldn’t have said ‘Hands off my plunder!’ blast him! That would have been like a man.at blast, v.1
Lord Jim 30: The little chap with his arm in a sling started to run after the carriage, bleating, ‘Captain! I say, captain! I sa-a-ay!’.at bleat, v.
Lord Jim 101: I can’t get a skipper or a shipowner to go near the place. So I made up my mind to cart the blessed stuff myself.at blessed, adj.
Lord Jim 122: So I turned to him and slanged him till all was blue.at blue, adj.3
Lord Jim 25: His three daughters were awfully nice, though they resembled him amazingly, and on the mornings he woke up with a gloomy view of their matrimonial prospects the office would read it in his eye and tremble, because, they said, he was sure to have somebody for breakfast.at have someone for breakfast (v.) under breakfast, n.
Lord Jim 115: ‘You are a brick,’ he cried next in a muffled voice.at brick, n.
Lord Jim 23: You must know that everybody connected with the sea was there, because the affair had been notorious for days, ever since that mysterious cable message came from Aden to start us cackling.at cackle, v.
Lord Jim 119: Blake’s a little cad, but Egström’s all right.at cad, n.1
Lord Jim 104: ‘You see, the old chap has all the money,’ whispered Chester, confidentially. ‘I’ve been cleaned out trying to engineer the dratted thing.’.at cleaned (out), adj.
Lord Jim 36: Some of you must have heard of Big Brierly – the captain of the crack ship of the Blue Star line.at crack, adj.
Lord Jim 151: I can assure you no man could have appeared less ‘in the similitude of a corpse,’ as that half-caste croaker had put it.at croaker, n.5
Lord Jim 15: The durned, compound, surface-condensing, rotten scrap-heap rattled and banged down there like a deck-winch, only more so.at darned, adj.
Lord Jim 53: Presently, lolling at ease, he said, ‘Dash it all! I tell you it bulged!’.at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
Lord Jim 17: I wish to ask you respectfully – respectfully, mind – who wouldn’t chuck a dratted job like this?at dratted, adj.
Lord Jim 35: A curious case. D. T.’s of the worst kind. He has been drinking hard in that Greek’s or Italian’s grog-shop for three days.at DTs, n.
Lord Jim 29: Now’s your time; easy does it... All right. Slack away again forward there.at easy does it under easy, adj.
Lord Jim 42: ‘Why eat all that dirt?’ he exclaimed.at eat dirt (v.) under eat, v.
Lord Jim 78: I wasn’t given half a chance – with a gang like that.at gang, n.1
Lord Jim 143: ‘Jee!’ he exclaimed, ‘I told him the earth wouldn’t be big enough to hold his caper’.at gee!, excl.
Lord Jim 41: Mad Matherson they generally called him – the same who used to hang out in Haï-phong.at hang out, v.1
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