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Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon choose

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[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 101: He soon decided that if taken by our hands we’d save his bacon.
at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 238: You fellers must be familiar with the ‘cracker’ or ‘tackey’ type of Southern people.
at cracker, n.3
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 252: The average medical student crams on Smith’s Compend, and prepares for examination.
at cram, v.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 102: Mrs. Taylor [...] was a ‘high-flyer at fashion,’—a society lady.
at high-flyer, n.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 183: Gee whillikens! — what a-b-i-g sil-ver side!
at gee whillikins!, excl.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 218: You are a greeny, shonuff.
at greenie, n.1
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 247: Here am I—a fashionable high-stepping society swell, a tony physician, and a college professor.
at high-stepping, adj.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 27: Bill threw himself down behind a great big old sycamore, and, by Jo, right plump into a bumble bee’s nest! [Ibid.] 194: Aneurism, by Jo! Man’s dead!
at by Joe! (excl.) under Joe, n.1
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 232: No, he wasn’t a shonuff ‘colonel,’ you know.
at sho’ ’nuff, adj.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 218: You are a greeny, shonuff.
at sho’ ’nuff, phr.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 51: I could tell every ‘reb’ sympathizer in the bunch.
at Reb, n.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 145: I used in the sappy days of my adolescence, the ‘fuzzy’ days of my green youth,—to-to attempt poetry!
at sappy, adj.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 262: Poor Leah, the cast-off, was scuffling for a living.
at scuffle, v.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 114: The boy gave me a pull at his canteen, for I was near famished for water. I was ‘spittin’ cotton’.
at spit cotton (v.) under spit, v.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 146: A spoony, wormy looking little fellow.
at spoony, adj.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 218: The country is of course, very sparsely settled [...] mostly by the poorer classes, — ‘tackeys,’ ‘po’ white trash,’ the negroes call them.
at tackhead, n.
[US] F.E. Daniel Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon 238: You fellers must be familiar with the ‘cracker’ or ‘tackey’ type of Southern people.
at tackhead, n.
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