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The Pioneers choose

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[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 213: What’s that you say, you old, dried corn-stalk! you sapless tub!
at cornstalk, n.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 111: Kirby turned fiercely to the black and said — ‘Shut your oven, you crow’.
at crow, n.2
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) III 92: He was seen drawing one of those jumpers that they carry their grain to mill in.
at jumper, n.1
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 213: It’s wicked to be shooting into flocks in this wastey manner; and none do it who know how to knock over a single bird.
at knock over, v.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 60: Oh, for massy’s sake!
at mercy!, excl.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 252: I’ll give you a mess of fish that is fit to place before the Governor.
at mess, n.1
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 61: I ask you, Mistress Pretty-bones, if she didn’t walk.
at Miss, n.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 111: Kirby turned fiercely to the black and said— ‘Shut your oven, you crow’.
at oven, n.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 54: It’s a peeler without, I can tell you, good woman.
at peeler, n.1
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 213: What’s that you say, you old, dried corn-stalk! you sapless stub!
at stub, n.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 52: I don’t think that by nater they are sich tonguey speakers.
at tonguey, adj.
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 213: What’s that you say, you old, dried corn-stalk! you sapless tub!
at tub, n.2
[US] J.F. Cooper Pioneers (1827) II 262: ‘Whist, whist,’ said Natty, in a low voice.
at whisht!, excl.
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