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Adventures of Jonathan Corncob choose

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[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 76: His backside was as raw and as smooth as a singed capon’s.
at backside, n.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 64: The whizzing of the ball brought me to my recollection.
at ball, n.1
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 138: ‘One cursee hurricane to be sure,’ said she; ‘but good little macky blue-coat, never be afraid.’.
at bluecoat, n.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 19: I had already bundled with half the girls in the neighbourhood. [Ibid.] 22: We exceeded all bounds of bundling [...] I was sentenced, for this breach of bundling, to marry the lady.
at bundle, v.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 62: I used my poker as a cut and thrust, and singed and carbonadoed him with a vengeance.
at carbonado, v.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 190: Damnation to you [...] you lubberly rascal.
at damnation!, excl.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 79: I am told that you sometimes get tipsy or groggy.
at groggy, adj.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 71: ‘Fie! fie! my jewel,’ said he, ‘you a soldier, used to leathern stock, and make faces at the touch of a hempen collar!’.
at hempen collar (n.) under hempen, adj.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 122: My friend told me, that as I did not seem to like any of his hen negroes, he had sent to a planter [...] to borrow a beauty of a somewhat lighter hue.
at hen, adj.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 170: By Jasus, said he.
at Jesus!, excl.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 71: ‘Fie! fie! my jewel,’ said he.
at jewel, n.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 51: She knelt down before her niece, and introducing it between her feet, applied it the Lord knows where, for I lost sight of her arm.
at Lord knows under Lord, n.1
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 190: Damnation to you [...] you lubberly rascal.
at lubberly, adj.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 126: At a little distance was a female still less tawney of complexion, called in the country, as I believe, a mestee [...] His intimacy with the mestee produced the quadroon.
at mustee, n.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 164: P-xed by the first woman I ever intended to make my wife.
at pox, v.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 78: You are a Judas, and a d---d son of a b---, you know you are.
at sonofabitch, n.
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 192: For sweet J-sus’ sake, what is the matter upon deck?
at sweet Jesus! (excl.) under sweet, adj.1
[US] Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 126: I observed a yellow quadroon giving suck to a child, which, though a little sallow, was as white as children in Europe.
at yellow, adj.
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