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quoted in Rogue’s Progress (1966) 221: Our old city, from east to west, ran riot in the pre-eminence of its larkishness.at larkishness (n.) under lark, n.2
quoted in Rogue’s Progress (1966) 221: Our old city, from east to west, ran riot in the pre-eminence of its larkishness. Rogue’s Progress (1966) 102: Then the betting on Owen became St. Paul’s to a China orange.at Lombard Street to a china orange, phr.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 170: Blood and zounds, sir! you may wound the feelings of the noble lord.at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 42: Wednesday evenings were devoted to a free-and-easy, sing-song, harmonic meeting, or whatever it might be termed.at free-and-easy, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 42: You’re a half-and-half sort of fellow; you put ale upon porter.at half-and-half, adj.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 118: All spirits being contraband in prison, the profession of the ‘whistler’ (for such is the vendor of ‘ardents’ denominated) was once very profitable.at ardent, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 115: ‘The Bench!’ that vale of tears and world of wit [...] a commonwealth made up of errant and fugitive talent of all sorts, from the cunning of the fraudulent beer-shop person [...] right up to the nefarious banker or swindling speculator.at Bench, the, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 96: The captain’s elegant appearance and handsome person became the talk among the inmates of the jail, and some low blackguards made a set of annoyance [...] calling after him ‘Betsy Bailey’.at betsy, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 54: His first toast [...] was either ‘The board of the green cloth,’ or ‘The children in the wood’.at board of green cloth (n.) under board, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 81: Why, after bonneting, and getting five pounds for you out of that flat do you think I’m such a fool as to allow you to take the box, and play against the bank?at bonnet, v.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 117: The distinguished position of being a hell-keeper’s tout, a picker-up or bonnet.at bonnet, n.2
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 196: Gentility in poverty knows the knock well, there is no bounce about it, it is modesty personnified.at bounce, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 243: The ‘Brace’ was the next arena of our social diversions.at brace (tavern), n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 211: [ad. for a play] The Licensed Victualler By the Editor of ‘The Town.’ Benjamin Bung (L.V.S. and A.T.T.) . . . . Mr. George Wild.at bung, n.2
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 54: His first toast [...] was either ‘The board of the green cloth,’ or ‘The children in the wood’.at children in the wood, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 10: A jolly tar, just come from far, / And fitted for a chopping.at chop, v.2
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 41: There was likewise in the neighbourhood a resort of the Corinthians of that time, Offley’s, in Henrietta Street.at corinthian, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 111: The colonel [...] said, ‘Give me a funt [...] Fork out a couter’.at couter, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 111: Two or three vulgar and thinking men added that most objectionable crimson adjective and addressed him as sanguinary old colonel.at crimson, adj.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 108: He fought Harry Jones, the‘Sailor Boy’, and made a cross of it.at cross, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 43: Soon after 1832, he got into ‘diffs’, and his residence was divided between the King’s Bench and the Fleet Prison.at dif, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 16: He never could be persuaded personally to go to the ‘dip’, not even on a civic show day, when such things were considered gifts.at dip, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 37: He took to the whip as a means of living, and was [...] the crack dragsman of the day [i.e. 1830s].at dragsman (n.) under drag, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 77: ‘Duchess,’ said Hawthorne (he always called the lady ‘the duchess’), ‘have you tried a nosegay?’.at duchess, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 139: Old croupiers, groom-porters, punters and broken-down Dunstables.at Dunstable, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 95: You used to kick up a dust about that d--d pawnbroker.at kick up (a) dust (v.) under dust, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 134: [...] now and then acting fag in an attorney’s office.at fag, n.1
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 43: About four o’clock in the morning the swells repaired to Rowbottom’s, the ‘Finish’ in James Street, where drinking and other innocent pastimes were kept up until [...] ten o’clock in the morning.at Finish, the, n.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 177: Rowley, to use a common phrase, ‘flared up’ and floored the innocent wight.at flare up, v.
Rogue’s Progress (1966) 74: The game played then amongst the flash disiples of Dame Chance was ‘shaking in the shallow’ (tossing in a hat).at flash, adj.
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