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Night-Walker Dec. 14: I have followed the Trade of being an Aunt, says she, ever since I was not able to be any longer a Niece.at aunt, n.
Night-Walker Dec. 14: I have followed the Trade of being an Aunt, says she, ever since I was not able to be any longer a Niece. Night-Walker Sept. 3: The third was a Savoy-Bird, well skill’d in Confidence and the depth of Pockets.at bird, n.1
Night-Walker Oct. 7: The frightening of Cullies, bumbasting of Whores, wringing off Knockers, burning Signs with Torches [...] were actions far below us who were men of Fancy, Sense and Wit.at bumbaste, v.
Night-Walker Oct. 6: For we laid down this Resolution, that none of those Bug-bears which canting fellows called Checks of Conscience [...] should divert us from our beloved liberty.at canting, adj.
Night-Walker Oct. 6: We would Chew our Cudd upon the thoughts of past pleasures.at chew the cud, v.
Night-Walker Sept. 3: The third was a Savoy-Bird, well skill’d in Confidence and the depth of Pockets.at confidence, n.
Night-Walker Oct. 7: When we met next morning , then it was our greatest delight to make railleries upon such of our Companions as were Cropsick with the debauch over night.at cropsick, adj.
Night-Walker Dec. 3: I had often heard that L--- C--- in the City, lay under the infamy of being a place of Assignation, betwixt City-Dames and their Sparks.at dame, n.
Night-Walker Dec. 15: No, D--m it, says she, I love better to be my own Mistress.at damn it!, excl.
Night-Walker Dec. 21: For his own part, he would not come near her for some days, less the Person that wrote the Letter, or any other should dog him.at dog, v.1
Night-Walker Oct. 5: Calling them the Grave Dons with mighty Beards, whose Chins were encompassed with Wisdom.at don, n.
Night-Walker Sept. 18: I found a Couple of flashy Young Sparks with him.at flashy, adj.
Night-Walker Nov. 15: A Wanton Flickering girl, who used with one of her Companions to eye every one that came into the Church, and observe any thing in their Dress or Deportment, that could make them matter of Mirth.at flicker, v.2
Night-Walker Oct. 18 : [I have] often heard that all the Whores in Town are Jacobites, and now I perceive something of the reason of it, I find they are your best Customers, but I believe if the truth were known they neither enrich you by their Trade, nor increase the number of Jacobites by their Converse with your Girls as you call them.at girl, n.1
Night-Walker Dec. 9: A Hackney must be always content with a Hackneys price.at hackney, n.
Night-Walker Oct. 2: Our ordinary proverb, that a Whoresbird by night will be a Hedgebird by day has often proved true.at hedge-bird (n.) under hedge, adj.
Night-Walker Sept. 3: The next attack was a City Madam, with a melancholly Air in her Face.at madam, n.
Night-Walker Dec. 14: I have followed the Trade of being an Aunt, says she, ever since I was not able to be any longer a Niece.at niece, n.
Night-Walker Dec. 18: We were unexpectedly accosted by a Night-Gown-Lady.at nightgown lady (n.) under night, n.
Night-Walker Dec. 3: With my Hat Cockt up, as if it had been resolved to take flight from my Noddle, up to the Firmament.at noddle, n.
Night-Walker Nov. 14: Instead of a Spark I find I have pitched upon a Preacher.at pitch on (v.) under pitch, v.
Night-Walker Sept. 9: They [...] had their own Sparks close by them, to whom they gave dumb signs, which they understood well enough, to follow them, and plant themselves in the next Room to them.at plant, v.1
Night-Walker 27: Such [whores] as were [...] Sick, Poxt, or Old she would turn out of doors.at poxed (adj.) under pox, n.1
Night-Walker Dec. 7: A Pox on your Advice, says she, I desire none of it.at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
Night-Walker Oct. 9: Some would tell how they were impos’d upon, and perhaps pox’d by a Jilt.at pox, v.
Night-Walker Sept. 2: So, after several Glasses, and some little insignificant Prittle-prattle, I fix’d my eyes upon her.at prittle-prattle, n.
Night-Walker Sept. 16: I met with a Gentlewoman very finely rigg’d.at rig, v.1
Night-Walker Oct. 8: We would appear as first-rate Beaus, dazzle the Eyes of the Ladies with our Rigging.at rigging, n.1
Night-Walker Dec. 15: No, D--m it, says she, I love better to be my own Mistress, and to rise and go to Bed when I will, than to be curb’d by every snotty Dame.at snotty, adj.
Night-Walker Sept. 17: Perceiving that his Pockets were always well-lin’d, he thought him a fit Person to spunge upon.at sponge, v.
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