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[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 228: Walk those horses about, blockhead!
at blockhead, n.1
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 319: ‘What sort of man is he?’ ‘Not a buck parson.’.
at buck, adj.1
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 53: You have little curiosity, I presume, to know how many hogsheads of port went down the throat of John Bull.
at John Bull, n.1
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 91: I’m too hot, damme, to walk with you any more.
at damme!, excl.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 25: She took courage, rouged her up, and set her a going as a dasher.
at dasher, n.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 395: There’s no use in sounding for him, master, he’s down in Davy’s locker long ago.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 110: Young, beautiful, graceful; then the deuce take me.
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 93: Ecod he talks as if he was a doctor.
at ecod!, excl.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 406: That the likeness is certainly striking – but this seems to be a fancy piece.
at fancy piece (n.) under fancy, adj.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 106: Think of that jilt’s tricking this poor fellow out of his aloe.
at jilt, n.1
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 94: We shall be at dinner as soon as the best of ’em after all, by jingo.
at jingo!, excl.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 121: ‘O, lady Anne Percival is the best wife in the world,’ ‘O, lady Anne Percival is quite a pattern woman!’.
at pattern, adj.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 267: And you out of patience [...] will go and marry – I know you will – some stick of a rival purely to provoke him.
at stick, n.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1994) 269: This Mr. Vincent, by all accounts, is just the thing.
at thing, the, n.
[UK] M. Edgeworth Belinda (1833) 322: Let me drive you out some day in my unicorn.
at unicorn, n.
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