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Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 39: She was as ugly as a stone fence.at ugly as..., adj.
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 39: She was as ugly as a stone fence. Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 45: The old lady appeared to be mighty wrathy; and when I broached the subject, she looked at me as savage as a meat axe.at savage as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
Narrative of the Life of D.C. 79: I saw two more bucks, very large fellows, too. I took a blizzard at one of them and up he tumbled.at blizzard, n.1
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 18: Here I waited until the old gentleman passed by, puffing and blowing, as tho’ his steam was high enough to burst his boilers.at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
Narrative of Life of D.C. 72: I returned, and set out electioneering, which was a bran-fire new business to me.at brand-fire new, adj.
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 32: I saw quick enough my cake was dough, and I tried to cool off as fast as possible.at cake is dough under cake, n.1
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 42: I was determined to stand up to my rack, fodder or no fodder.at come up to the rack (or jump the fence) (v.) under come up, v.1
Narrative of Life of D.C. (1934) 49: We worked on for some years, renting ground, and paying high rent, until I found it wasn’t the thing it was cracked up to be.at not all it’s cracked up to be under crack up, v.1
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 27: So I took ‘leetle of the creater,’ – that warmer of the cold, and cooler of the hot.at creature, the, n.
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 19: I then cut out.at cut out, v.3
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 88: It looked like it was to be starvation any way; we therefore determined to go on the old saying, root hog or die.at root, hog or die, v.
Narrative of Life of D.C. (1934) 55: I took no more clothing [...] so that if I got into an Indian battle, I might not be pestered with unnecessary plunder, to prevent my having a fair shake with them.at fair shake, n.
Narrative of Life of D.C. (1934) 19: I hired myself to go with him, determining not to return home, as home and the school-house had both become too hot for me.at hot, adj.
Narrative of Life of D.C. 70: But to do this, and write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry over my persimmon .at huckleberry above persimmon under huckleberry, n.
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 45: Her Irish was up too high to do anything with her.at Irish, n.
Narrative of Life of D.C. (1934) 81: Here we paused for a few minutes, and the prophets pow-wowed over their men awhile, and then got out their paint, and painted them, all according to their custom.at pow-wow, v.
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 18: My father told me, in a very angry manner, that he would whip me an eternal sight worse than the master.at sight, n.2
Narrative of Life of D.C. (1934) 104: I got the boatsmen all to go out with me to where I was going to settle, and we slap’d up a cabin in little or no time.at slap up, v.
Narrative of the Life of D.C. (1934) 170: I was determined to stand up to my lick-log, salt or no salt.at stand (up) to one’s lick-log (salt or no salt) (v.) under stand up, v.
Narrative of Life of D.C. (1934) 22: I didn’t know how soon I should be knocked into a cocked hat, and get my walking papers for another country.at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
Life 38: They knock the Law for belting peoples who done wrong.at knock, v.
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