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The Bankrupt choose

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[UK] Foote Bankrupt in Works (1799) II 116: The people of this country are always ready to bite at a bubble.
at bite, v.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: The people of this country are always ready to bite at a bubble.
at bite, v.
[UK] Foote Bankrupt II ii: As your name is not blown upon yet, suppose you coin a couple of quires!
at blow, v.1
[UK] Foote Bankrupt III i: Then the business shall be blown up in an instant.
at blown, adj.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: It is the duty of every honest merchant to break once at least in his life.
at break, v.1
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt I i: But I must brush off, for here comes my Lady.
at brush, v.1
[UK] Foote Bankrupt in Works (1799) II 116: The people of this country are always ready to bite at a bubble.
at bubble, n.1
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt III ii: Master Margin, come and give the old buck satisfaction.
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] Foote Bankrupt III i: Writers in Journals, like rope-dancers, to engage the public attention, must venture their necks every step they take.
at dance in/on a rope (v.) under dance, v.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: resource.: A scheme of his, to monopolize sprats and potatoes. pillage.: And it took? resource.: Oh! there was no danger of that.
at no danger under danger, n.
[UK] Foote Bankrupt III i: O law! You are in a vast prodigious great hurry.
at law!, excl.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: No, that mint is exhausted, and private paper return’d to its primitive value.
at paper, n.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt I i: I never remark’d the boy to be presumptuous and forward, like some of our pert prigs of the city.
at prig, n.1
[UK] Foote Bankrupt II ii: They treat us, Master Resource, like a couple of quacks, never apply but in desperate cases.
at quack, n.1
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II i: You deposit so much money, and he grants you such an annuity; a mere Smithfield bargain, that is all.
at Smithfield bargain (n.) under Smithfield, n.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: Should they smoke his design...
at smoke, v.1
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: pillage: For which you procured a good price? rescource: Not a souse.
at not a sou (n.) under sou, n.
[UK] Foote Bankrupt II ii: Is there not some danger in concealing the portable stuff, as you call it?
at stuff, n.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: resource: A scheme of his, to monopolize sprats and potatoes. pillage: And it took? resource: Oh! there was no danger of that.
at take, v.
[UK] Foote The Bankrupt II ii: Pass’d a few necessary notes to get him number and value, white-wash’d him, and sent him home to his wife.
at whitewash, v.
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