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Adam Bede (1873) 141: You must try what you can do by bunging his eyes up.at bung up, v.
Adam Bede (1873) 141: You must try what you can do by bunging his eyes up. Adam Bede (1873) 60: Nowhere else could an oak clock-case and an oak table have got such a polish by the hand: genuine ‘elbow-polish,’ as Mrs. Poyser called it.at elbow grease, n.
Adam Bede (1873) 82: I’d never marry a man as had got no brains; for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at?at geck, n.
Adam Bede (1873) 104: I’m a devil of a fellow for getting myself into a hobble.at hobble, n.
Adam Bede (1873) 163: Molly [...] said ‘Lawks!’ whenever she was expected to wonder.at lawks!, excl.
Adam Bede (1873) 94: I reckon it’s wi’ bein’ a Methody.at Methody, n.
Adam Bede (1873) 85: The little puss seems already to have airs enough to make a husband [...] miserable.at puss, n.1
Adam Bede (1873) 161: Totty [...] toddled on in front of her father and mother. ‘There’s shapes! An’ she’s got such a long foot, she’ll be her father’s own child.’.at shape, n.
Adam Bede (1873) 82: If you’ve got a soft to drive you: he’ll soon turn over into the ditch.at soft, n.
Adam Bede (1873) 82: I’d never marry a man as had got no brains; for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at?at tack, v.
Adam Bede (1873) 62: As poor a two-fisted thing as ever I saw, you know you was.at two-fisted (adj.) under two, adj.
Adam Bede (1873) 125: Your aunt’s been worrited to-day.at worrit, v.
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