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N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 195: The bloated night-walker [...] who lives by pacing the purlieus of the Points or Water street all night, and enticing drunken negroes, sailors or loafers into two-shilling bed-houses.at bed-house (n.) under bed, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 195: The bloated night-walker [...] who lives by pacing the purlieus of the Points or Water street all night, and enticing drunken negroes, sailors or loafers into two-shilling bed-houses. N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 144: The rattling of the policemen’s ‘bills’ upon the heads and bones of the rioters.at billy, n.4
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 87: It is an easy thing to pick up a loafer, a pick-pocket, a burner or a Bowery blackleg at even the most dashing bowling-saloon.at burner, n.1
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 172: The virtues of the b’hoy are by no means all of a negative character.at b’hoy, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 117: With the boys he is emphatically ‘cock of the walk’.at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 172: And why need we look farther for the causes of that deep-seated hostility to the ‘codfish aristocracy’ which rolls its carriage-wheels over his toes and raises a cloud of dust in his eyes?at codfish, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 184: Well, Jack, I don’t want your money, because you are a good fellow, and pretty d---d drunk.at damned, adv.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 184: ‘Dang it,’ said he, at length – ‘where is it?’.at dang!, excl.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 155: This is the reason why our theaters are now nearly deserted on ordinary occasions, save by dead-heads, rowdies and whoremongers.at deadhead, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 135: She loves the society of literary men, and could not exist amid the vulgar inanities of mercantile and ‘fast’ men.at fast, adj.1
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 85: The half-frightened and half-fuddled country merchant.at fuddled, adj.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 174: We hed a gallus time!at gallows, adj.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 108: The maudlin greenhorns [...] who guzzle down the nefarious stuff.at guzzle, v.1
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 175: The g’hal is very independent in her tastes.at g’hal, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 194: His drowzy bench-fellow [...] inquires why the h-- he can’t lie still, and not be waking up his neighbors.at hell, the, phr.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 141: You are here – you pay your shilling at the door – and you are ‘hunk’.at hunk, adj.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 176: The newest invention in the costume of the g’hal is a fascinating article of outside gear, termed by some a ‘polka,’ but generally known as a ‘monkey-jacket’.at monkey jacket (n.) under monkey, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 195: The bloated night-walker [...] who lives by pacing the purlieus of the Points or Water street all night, and enticing drunken negroes, sailors or loafers into two-shilling bed-houses.at night walker, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 182: Here a sight met the astonished Green, which totally upset the few remains of common sense in his bewildered noddle.at noddle, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 96: The more shrewd and business-like among them may form a partnership with some panel-thief.at panel thief (n.) under panel, n.1
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 109: They are as completely unnerved and prostrated as the drunkard deprived of his dram or the opium-eater of his pill.at pill, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 146: The gruff and phthisicky bar-keeper who dealt out the damnable poison at three cents a glass.at poison, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 176: A light pink contrasting with a deep blue [...] are among the startling contrasts which Lize considers ‘some pumpkins’.at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 176: But the bonnet! – that is the crowning achievement of the out-door adornment of the full-rigged g’hal.at rig, v.1
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 184: This [...] is the celebrated game of thimble-rig.at thimble-rig, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 175: Gossip, scandal, ‘sells’ and laughter are the piquant sauces of the homely dinner.at sell, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 86: He never had such a run of bad luck in his life, and that he ‘cannot play for shucks’.at shucks, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 194: The sleepy policeman has gone his last round, and turned in at the station-house for his morning snooze.at snooze, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 73: Among the men you would find [...] judges and juvenile delinquents [...] Gamblers and fancy men, high-flyers and spoonies, genteel pick-pockets and burglars.at spoony, n.
N.Y. by Gas-Light (1990) 186: Zerubbabel, thrust into a dark and dreary hall, was left [...] to recall at his leisure the process of being put though a course of sprouts.at sprout, n.2
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