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The Old Curiosity Shop choose

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[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 74: As it’s rather late, I’ll try and get a wink or two of the balmy.
at balmy, the, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 225: He never took a dice-box in his hand, or held a card, but he was plucked, pigeoned, and cleaned out completely.
at cleaned (out), adj.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 377: It’s Destiny, and mine’s a crusher!
at crusher, n.1
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 140: Respect associations Tommy, even if you do cut up rough.
at cut up rough, v.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 264: Sally found you a second-hand stool, sir [...] She’s a rare fellow at a bargain, I can tell you.
at fellow, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 63: The gush of tobacco came from the shop.
at gush, n.1
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 62: What does it come to? That you become the sole inheritor of the wealth of this rich old hunks.
at hunks, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 149: That’s a bad look-out.
at lookout, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 139: ‘Grinder’s lot’ approached with redoubled speed [...] Mr. Grinder’s company, familiarly termed a lot, consisted of a young gentleman and a young lady on stilts, and Mr. Grinder himself, who [...] carried at his back a drum.
at lot, n.1
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 431: ‘To make it seem more real and pleasant, I shall call you the Marchioness, do you hear?’ The small servant nodded.
at marchioness, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 431: Mr. Swiveller [...] slowly sipped the last choice drops of nectar.
at nectar, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 23: What is the odds so long as the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?
at what odds?, phr.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 61: It’s equally plain that the money which the old flint— rot him— first taught me to expect that I should share with him at his death, will all be hers.
at old flint (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 432: Miss Sally’s such a one-er for that, she is.
at oner, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 225: He never took a dice-box in his hand, or held a card, but he was plucked, pigeoned, and cleaned out completely.
at pigeon, v.1
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 430: A quart pot filled with some fragrant compound, which [...] was indeed choice purl.
at purl, n.1
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 270: Mr Swiveller replied that he had very recently been assuaging the pangs of thirst, but that he was still open to ‘a modest quencher.’.
at quencher, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 160: He wished [...] he could make out whether he (Kit) was ‘precious raw’ or ‘precious deep’.
at raw, adj.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 372: Ha ha ha! oh very rich, very rich indeed, remarkably so!
at rich, adj.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 60: Richard Swiveller finished the rosy, and applied himself to the composition of another glassful.
at rosy, the, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 271: ‘Sharks, I suppose?’ said the lodger.
at shark, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 305: A very spanking grey in that cab, sir, if you’re a judge of horse-flesh.
at spanking, adj.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 22: Last night he had had ‘the sun very strong in his eyes’; by which expression he was understood to convey [...] that he had been extremely drunk.
at be in the sun (v.) under sun, n.
[UK] Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 136: Trotters, which, with the prefatory adjective, Short, had been conferred upon him by reason of the small size of his legs.
at trotter, n.
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