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Canker at the Heart choose

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[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 8: And we what’s been out o’ work, and not much food [...] we has to get into the trench and go a-heaving as quick as a man what’s had his belly-full of tommy every day.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 44: Then, a bulldog, sturdy fellow, sullenly callous.
at bulldog, n.
[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 8: There’s a lot o’ dirty dogs [...] what creep and crawl into Corp’ration jobs. I ain’t never crawled, nor I never will.
at crawl, v.1
[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 7: Some on ’em was painters and such, or clurks, an’ they had their hands cut an’ bleeding and had to jack it up, poor blokes.
at jack (in), v.
[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 149: A little further on, another night-bird is propped against the wall.
at nightbird (n.) under night, n.
[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 9: Mind when I cleared out the boss and the ganger-man that night, old mate, me being a bit on?
at on, adv.1
[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 25: In the basement is a wash-house, and, in a room adjoining, the ‘snob-shop,’ a cobbler’s bench.
at snob, n.
[UK] L.C. Cornford Canker at the Heart 3: ‘Bloomin’ fine thing,’ I says, ‘to be sugared about like this.’.
at sugar, v.2
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