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The Two Noble Kinsmen choose

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[UK] Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen II ii: Do but put / A feskue in her fist, and you shall see her / Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench.
at fescue, n.
[UK] W.G. Simms Kinsmen I 167: He was a little, dried up, withered atomy.
at atomy, n.
[US] W.G. Simms Kinsmen 57: He was a little, dried up, withered atomy,—a jaundiced ‘sand-lapper’ or ‘clay-eater’ from the Wassamasaw country .
at clay-eater (n.) under clay, n.
[UK] W.G. Simms Kinsmen 98: I wouldn’t give a continental copper for the safety of your skin, colonel .
at continental, adj.
[UK] W.G. Simms Kinsmen ii 27: The dull, drowsy, beef-eyed Dutchmen,... the Hessian boobies.
at Dutchman, n.
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