1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 219: But lor’ a mussy, I was all in such a flurry over the business I don’t half recollect.at lor-a-massy/-mussy!, excl.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 90: Well, if you young gents can’t tell a good slumper, I’m a Dutchman.at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 248: ‘He’ll have to run dot and go one, I suppose, sir?’ ‘What, lame?’ cried Gwyn.at dot and go one, v.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 128: Not you; been bantering all the time. They didn’t mean it, and you didn’t mean it.at banter, v.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 41: I never hated anyone that I know of, but I do hate him now. He’s a beast.at beast, n.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 261: I have heard say that he swore he’d have that dog’s life; but I’m sure it was all bounce.at bounce, n.1
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 311: Why, because they’ve chucked me over, sir.at chuck over (v.) under chuck, v.2
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 262: Well, he needn’t have been quite so chuff with a man […].at chuff, adj.2
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 129: If they’ve told you a crammer at some time, [...] you don’t feel disposed to believe them again.at crammer, n.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 47: What, you idle young dog! Do you expect to pass all your life fishing, bathing, and bird’s-nesting here?at dog, n.2
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 173: Hardock, you’re fagged out, and had better stay.at fagged (out), adj.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 137: Oh, I say, Jolly-wet, what a foggy old chap you are.at foggy, adj.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 179: To think of it, for such a mine to have lain untouched ever since the time of our great-great-gaffers.at gaffer, n.1
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 157: ‘I get five-and-twenty shilling a week for working here, not for going to chuck away my life.’ ‘Gahn!’ shouted a man. ‘Your life aren’t worth more nor no one else’s. Who are you?’.at go on!, excl.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 20: Well, I’ll be hanged!at I’ll be hanged! (excl.) under hang, v.1
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 170: I regularly got the horrors on me, for I was all alone.at horrors, the, n.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 160: I didn’t want to fight [...] but I could have knocked that fellow Harry Vores into the middle of next week if I’d liked.at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 130: ‘Come to knock up an accident of some kind!’ said the man, with the grin on his face expanding.at knock up, v.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 123: Of course, a chap gets his monkey up a bit when it comes to a fight.at get one’s monkey up (v.) under monkey, n.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 41: I seem to see young Jollivet there going head first over the cliff; and the mortal shiver it did send through me was something as I never felt afore.at mortal, adj.1
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 190: Oh, I say, what a plucked ’un you are, Joey.at plucked ’un (n.) under pluck, n.1
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 182: If we don’t come back, you send a fresh shift, and let ’em bring us some prog and some blankets.at prog, n.1
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 64: Ho! You’re precious cunning. But never you mind, my young sharpshooter.at sharpshooter, n.
1896 G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 38: Nice pair o’ soft-roed ’uns you two are! Why, you aren’t got no more muscle than a pair o’ jelly-fishes.at soft-roed (adj.) under soft, adj.