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The Twin Rivals choose

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[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I i: As for my brother, he don’t care a farthing for me.
at not care a farthing, v.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I ii: Truman! ads my life, he’s one of my babies!
at adslife! (excl.) under ads, n.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals IV i: ’Tis my brother [...] ’adso, get into the closet till he be gone.
at adso! (excl.) under ads, n.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I i: Take this; pay for a bottle of wine, and bid Balderdash [inn keeper] bring it.
at balderdash, n.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I ii: Perhaps you know him; he’s a brisk fellow, much about Court.
at brisk, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals V i: They must find him non compos. He was mad before, you know.
at non compos, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals II ii: A moderate glass of cool Nantes is the thing.
at cool nantz (n.) under cool, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I i: Have not I known you, sir, throw away ten pound of a night upon a covey of pit-partridges, and a setting dog?
at covey, n.1
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals II iv: Death and furies! I’ll be revenged!
at death!, excl.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I i: Now I fly at nobler game.
at game, n.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I i: That was in the days [...] of dirty linen, pit-masks, hedge taverns, and beef-steaks.
at hedge-tavern (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals I i: This confounded hump of mine [...] presses me down here in the dirt and diseases of Covent Garden, the low suburbs of pleasure.
at suburb, n.
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals IV ii: Deel tauke me but dish ish a most shweet business indeed!
at sweet, adj.1
[UK] Farquhar Twin-Rivals II ii: A moderate glass of cool Nantes is the thing.
at thing, the, n.
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