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Mill on the Floss choose

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[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) II 316: Stop a bit: we mustn’t be in too great a hurry.
at bit, n.1
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) III 488: O I think he’s a perfect character!
at character, n.
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) I 73: You have hit it there, Bessy.
at hit it, v.
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) II 306: He’d set the law on you – the law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
at law, n.
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) VI 500: Lors! I’m no better not a tilted bottle I arn’t.
at lor!, excl.
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) I 116: A connoisseur might have seen ‘points’ in her which had a higher promise for maturity than Lucy’s natty completeness.
at natty, adj.
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) I 114: She [...] left it all in a lump to her husband’s nevvy.
at nevvy, n.
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) I 153: He had described uncle Pullet as a nincompoop.
at nincompoop, n.
[UK] ‘George Eliot’ Mill on the Floss (1985) I 84: As different as possible from poor Maggie’s phiz.
at phiz, n.1
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