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[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) II 167: ‘Could you find the place where you put the marines in ambush, Captain Manual?’ ‘Has a dog a nose! and can he follow a clean scent!’ exclaimed the marine.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) II 44: I have it in black and white, to run the Ariel into this feather-bed sort of a place.
at black and white, n.1
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) II 142: A damn’d young baboon-behav’d curmudgeon.
at baboon, n.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) III 216: We can [...] get a supply of fuel before eight bells are struck.
at bell, n.1
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) II 81: I’ll have a crack at some marine in very revenge.
at have a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) III 243: Away with ye, old croaker!
at croaker, n.1
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) III 241: ‘Let them have it!’ cried Griffith.
at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) II 141: A young herring-faced monkey! to meddle with a tool ye don’t know the use of.
at herring-faced (adj.) under herring, n.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) II 130: We must get them both off [...] before the old man takes it into his wise head to leave the coast.
at old man, n.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pilot (1824) II 66: If you wait, sir, till the land-breeze fills your sails, you will wait another moon.
at moon, n.
[US] LeVier & Guenther Pilot 123: This only served to jack you up and get you back on the ball.
at jack up, v.3
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