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My Shooting Box choose

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[US] H.W. Forester My Shooting Box 90: ‘A roast leg of mutton?’ [...] ‘Will you have some?’ ‘Will a fish swim?’.
at can a duck swim? under duck, n.1
[US] H.W. Forester My Shooting Box 131: Good stuff for a fuddle, Frank?
at fuddle, n.
[US] H.W. Forester My Shooting Box 18: By George! but that is splendid, Harry.
at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
[US] H.W. Forester My Shooting Box 83: It required all his remarkably good looks and quiet manner to redeem his attire from the charge of being kiddy at least, if not tigerish.
at kiddy, adj.
[US] H.W. Forester My Shooting Box 93: Rot-gut! [...] none o’ your hocks nor your clarets for me.
at rotgut, n.
[US] H.W. Forester My Shooting Box 83: It required all his remarkably good looks and quiet manner to redeem his attire from the charge of being kiddy at least, if not tigerish.
at tigerish (adj.) under tiger, n.
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