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Service of all the Dead choose

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[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 158: And all you can do is to sit on that great fat arse of yours and say you’re sorry.
at arse, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 240: There was Philip, a clever little beggar, with all the natural gifts any boy could ask for.
at beggar, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 181: A family household brimming with evangelical piety, and one forever frequented by inveterate god-botherers and born-again Baptists.
at God-botherer, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 95: ‘What happened to Paul Morris?’ [...] ‘Beggered off with Joseph’s wife, like as not.’.
at bugger off, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 78: The woman who charred for him had seen it several times on his desk.
at char, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 251: Made me look like a proper Charley, if you ask me.
at charlie, n.4
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 116: ‘Is that you, Ruthie dear?’ Who else, you silly old crow?
at crow, n.2
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 151: And where the Dickens, he wondered, were they off to now?
at dickens, the, phr.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 92: You’ll get a touch of the old Farmer Giles sitting there, sir.
at farmer Giles, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 160: Why fart around with all that piddling nonsense.
at fart about (v.) under fart, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 74: Perhaps, thought Morse, she’s not so ga-ga after all?
at gaga, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 240: And the parents dote on – guess who? – young, glamour-pants Philip.
at glamour pants (n.) under glamour, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 68: He told himself that it didn’t matter two hoots whether the Rawlinson woman was there or not.
at hoot, n.2
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 154: Let’s play it safe, Lewis. We really don’t want any more corpses.
at play it..., v.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of All the Dead (1980) 138: Been roughing it long?
at rough it, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 238: Any why, oh, why, all this peculiar palaver in the church?
at palaver, n.
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