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Drama in Pokerville and Other Stories choose

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[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 131: Up stars I went with ’em, mad as thunder.
at mad as..., adj.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 103: Madison is an ‘awful place for revivals!’ an ‘awful place for Mesmerism!’ an ‘awful place for Mrs. Nichols’ poems!’ an ‘awful place for politics!’.
at awful, adj.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 35: He [...] was ‘a perfect gentleman when he was sober,’ and, altogether, the ‘big dog’ at Pokerville.
at big dog, n.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 164: A pair of ’em! naked, little, rosy, bawling busters!
at buster, n.1
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 13: Manager Dust was just nat’rally bound to make ‘a corde of money’.
at cord, n.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 132: ‘Now cut dirt, d--n you!’ screamed I.
at cut dirt (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 117: Sure enough, there was no mistake about it, till, finally, terribly cut down, he was obliged to say: ‘Well, gentlemen, it is here, by gracious!’.
at cut-down, adj.1
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 198: One of them fellers that tumbles! – seen ’em, once, more’n half naked, cuttin’ up, down to Madison!
at cut up, v.1
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 146: The doors opened with a slap-dash!
at slap-dash, adv.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 35: Dr. Slunk was ‘death on poker’.
at death on, adj.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 79: As for you, you d---d stolling death’s-head.
at death’s head (n.) under death, n.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 147: Mr. Twirl was wound up, used up, done up, in short he was very drunk!
at done up, adj.1
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 102: Back went old fatty against the centre-table.
at fatty, n.1
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 50: Another whirl on the road announced Dr. Slunk, and that gentleman, tolerably ‘fired up’ and in evident ill humour, ‘paraded himself’.
at fired up, adj.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 73: ‘Prehaps,’ Parson Hyme didn’t put it into Pokerville for two mortal hours; and prehaps Pokerville didn’t wiggle, wince, and finally ‘flummix’ right beneath him!
at flummox, v.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 118: We must think of a gag!
at gag, n.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 193: ‘Two candles, h-ll!’ said he.
at — hell!, excl.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 197: None of them ‘cotton’d’ to him more kindly than an elderly ‘hoosier,’ from the innermost depths of Indiana.
at hoosier, n.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 94: What with the blowing of noses [...] there was the most awful [...] horn-blowing that ever Judge Frill had listened to.
at horn, n.2
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 27: Down he went – ‘K’chuck!’.
at ker-, pfx
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 73: ‘Prehaps,’ Parson Hyme didn’t put it into Pokerville for two mortal hours.
at mortal, adj.1
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 14: Varmints were ‘no whar’ in comparison with [...] real live actors!
at nowhere, adj.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 74: Mr. Waters [...] paced the bar-room of the hotel ejaculating ‘pickles!’.
at pickles!, excl.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 104: His grizzly poll.
at poll, n.1
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 131: Ken Mesmerism come the re-mee-jil over rheumatiz?
at rheumatiz, n.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 199: The thoroughly ‘sawed’ victim made way for him as if he had been the cholera incarnate!
at sawed, adj.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 15: The ladies were obliged to stand up and be scrouged until chairs could be brought from the hotel.
at scrouge, v.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 81: I kep’ shady, Miss Fanny, bress de Lord, I did.
at keep shady (v.) under shady, adj.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 68: And Mr. Bagley was there with five more barrels, to do the same [i.e. to shoot] any gentleman who might say ‘shucks!’.
at shucks!, excl.
[US] J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 40: A phiz-battered, soft-headed, gizzard-tickled old die-away.
at soft-headed (adj.) under soft, adj.
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