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The History of Pompey the Little : Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog choose

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[UK] F. Coventry Hist. of Pompey Little (1785) II 68/1: The young Cantab who now took possession of him, had come up to London.
at Cantab., n.
[UK] F. Coventry Hist. of Pompey Little (1785) I 40/2: I was dragged back to my prison! Excellent lodging in the condemned-hole!
at hole, n.1
[UK] F. Coventry Hist. of Pompey Little (1785) I 47/1: ‘Odrabbet un,’ cries he, ‘why sure a can’t be dead, can a? by gar he is; pillgarlick is certainly dead.’.
at pilgarlic, n.
[UK] F. Coventry Hist. of Pompey Little (1785) I 40/1: [I] borrowed a friend’s horse, bought a second-hand pair of poppers [...] and away I rode.
at popper, n.1
[UK] F. Coventry Hist. of Pompey Little (1785) I 40/2: While I was expecting every hour to be tucked up, his majesty [...] took pity on me the very day before execution.
at tuck up, v.
[UK] F. Coventry Hist. of Pompey Little II 209: I won’t have the Honour of my Ancestors besmeared with his Grubstreet Ink.
at Grub Street, adj.
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