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[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 75: I strolled about in search of a pawnbroker’s, but so useful a personage was unknown in Lyme — the three balls were never even heard of.
at three balls, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor xii: The result of which is [...] debilitated constitutions; and the end of their folly marked by the attacks of the big birds (geese) driving them off the stage .
at bird, n.2
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 192: Those little snug parties proved my blow up.
at blow-up, n.1
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 256: comical dick was a peep o’ day companion, who never left his glass or hids friend till somnus closed his eyes.
at peep o’ day boy, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 125: There, my fine fellow, that will keep you in bub and grub.
at bub, n.1
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 212: I agreed with my clown, Tom Jeffries, who could sing a good low comedy song, Mr. Brown, a musician, and myself, to busk our way up to London.
at busk, v.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 52: Mistress Start was enacting in Lady Macbeth, While Manager Start played the Thane; When his ‘chuck’ was alarm’d, as she plann’d Duncan’s death, In the castle of famed Dunsinane.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 76: A wag loquacious, long a well known cit.
at cit, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 132: jemmy blossom laughed heartily at Clodpole’s remarks.
at clodpoll, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 125: Will you come down with the ready?
at come down with (v.) under come down, v.1
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 255: Superiority of talent goes for nothing: he is threatened, laughed at, blamed, cut up by ‘the press’.
at cut up, v.1
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 76: A damned high dog — the rattling rogue invited With wags to dine.
at dog, n.2
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 105: Is it for this wretched place [...] that I have left London? Is it in such a doghole as this that I can expect to realize any fame?
at doghouse, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 45: ‘Oh, be aisy, man,’ interrupted the incredulous ostler.
at easy!, excl.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 60: Mutton is not worth a single farden if you let it get cold.
at farden, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 72: Quite pleased so snug a shop to know, Where he could stop and take a go!
at go, n.1
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 126: Gag burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, exclaiming, ‘Come, that’s a good one!’.
at good one, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 127: ‘He’s not to be had,’ said Gag, in an audible whisper.
at had, adj.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 125: You shall have [...] eighteen hog a week, and a benefit which never fails.
at hog, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 90: Hastily old Hunks exclaimed, ‘How?’.
at hunks, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 45: Why, you ugly slip of a tall Mary, I’ve a mind to go and tell her what a pretty sort of a sarvent she has got.
at Mary, n.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 28: To have a mike is to loiter away the time, when it might be more usefully or profitably employed [F&H].
at mike, v.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 47: Oh, the ma-na-ger in—he is a queer bitch, I dare say—we shall have some fun, my lady.
at queer bitch (n.) under queer, adj.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 271: ‘Why,’ replied Mug-Cutter, ‘those angels were screwed so tight by the manager of Scanty Corner, they were compelled to leave him’.
at screwed, adj.
[UK] Egan Life of an Actor 59: proteus often laughed at Quill, observing, ‘that he did not use his acquaintances well, for he put them all upon the shelf’.
at on the shelf under shelf, n.2
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