1847 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.
1847 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.
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 164: A pair of ’em! naked, little, rosy, bawling busters!at buster, n.1
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 13: Manager Dust was just nat’rally bound to make ‘a corde of money’.at cord, n.
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 132: ‘Now cut dirt, d--n you!’ screamed I.at cut dirt (v.) under cut, v.2
1847 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
1847 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
1847 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.
1847 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
1847 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.
1847 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.
1847 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.
1847 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
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 73: ‘Prehaps,’ Parson Hyme didn’t put it into Pokerville for two mortal hours.at mortal, adj.1
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 14: Varmints were ‘no whar’ in comparison with [...] real live actors!at nowhere, adj.
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 74: Mr. Waters [...] paced the bar-room of the hotel ejaculating ‘pickles!’.at pickles!, excl.
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 131: Ken Mesmerism come the re-mee-jil over rheumatiz?at rheumatiz, n.
1847 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.
1847 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.
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 81: I kep’ shady, Miss Fanny, bress de Lord, I did.at keep shady (v.) under shady, adj.
1847 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.
1847 J.M. Field Drama in Pokerville 40: A phiz-battered, soft-headed, gizzard-tickled old die-away.at soft-headed (adj.) under soft, adj.