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Lady of the Lake choose

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[US] W. Scott Lady of Lake (1871) 101: [note] The ancient buskin was made of the undress’d deer hide [...] which procured the Highlanders the well-known epithet of Red-shanks .
at redshank, n.
[US] W. Scott Lady of Lake 142: Can Ellen call that an evil hap which gives me an opportunity of again beholding her?.
at hap, n.1
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Lady of the Lake 24: Put up the sword – I wish I could as well into the skies, put up this large dumb bell. (Pointing to Blanche, dead on the floor.).
at dumb-bell, n.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Lady of the Lake 214: Put on brass knuckles, filed at every joint, and meet me in an hour at Willett’s Point.
at knuckle, n.
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