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[US] E. Eggleston Mystery of Metropolisville 243: He’d heern him tell as how as Ole Buck – the President, I mean – had ordered you let out.
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[US] E. Eggleston Mystery of Metropolisville 244: O! if I wuz a jail-bird, / With feathers like a crow.
at gaolbird, n.
[US] E. Eggleston Mystery of Metropolisville 242: Jemeny! they’s five hundred people livin’ on Gray’s claim.
at jiminy!, excl.
[US] E. Eggleston Mystery of Metropolisville 121: You’ve clim half-way t’ the top, / Down comes yer ladder ke-whop!
at ker-, pfx
[US] E. Eggleston Mystery of Metropolisville 52: He knows how to deal with these sharks.
at shark, n.
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