1773 Foote The Bankrupt II ii: The people of this country are always ready to bite at a bubble.at bite, v.
1773 Foote Bankrupt in Works (1799) II 116: The people of this country are always ready to bite at a bubble.at bite, v.
1773 Foote Bankrupt II ii: As your name is not blown upon yet, suppose you coin a couple of quires!at blow, v.1
1773 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
1773 Foote Bankrupt in Works (1799) II 116: The people of this country are always ready to bite at a bubble.at bubble, n.1
1773 Foote The Bankrupt III ii: Master Margin, come and give the old buck satisfaction.at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
1773 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.
1773 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.
1773 Foote The Bankrupt II ii: No, that mint is exhausted, and private paper return’d to its primitive value.at paper, n.
1773 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
1773 Foote Bankrupt II ii: They treat us, Master Resource, like a couple of quacks, never apply but in desperate cases.at quack, n.1
1773 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.
1773 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.
1773 Foote Bankrupt II ii: Is there not some danger in concealing the portable stuff, as you call it?at stuff, n.
1773 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.
1773 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.