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[UK] T.W.H. Crosland The First Stone 24: You stupid English law, / Pretended to send me here / Because of my infamies / With certain unkempt clods.
at clod, n.1
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland The First Stone 28: I may seem to belong / Not to the smirking fops / And sexless demireps [...] But to the company / Of the untroubled saints.
at demi-rep, n.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland The First Stone 14: There was a friend of mine / Gat in my tuft-hunting days.
at tuft-hunting, adj.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland The First Stone 20: A common convict, a ‘lag’ / Doing his bitter ‘stretch’.
at lag, n.2
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland The First Stone 17: Did he express his regret / For the ugly scene he had caused?
at ugly, adj.
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