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‘Farce for the Championship’ in All the Year Round 23 June 572/1: Enter a closely shaven, bullet-headed fellow in an ecstasy of excitement [...] ‘So help me,’ he cries delightedly, ‘if he ain’t a blank picter with the weins in his face down ’ere and ’ere, a showin’ out just as if a blank hartist ’ad painted him. Tell yer, he’s beautiful, fine as a blank greyhound, with a blank heavy air with him that looks blank like winnin.’. All Year Round n.p.: Take yer two quid to one. All Year Round 9 July 248/1: I put on a blue Jersey fisherman's shirt, a pair of long, dark, rough, grey leg-bags — I cannot call them stockings. All Year Round No. 66 367: There are no beefy boys at these schools [F&H]. All Year Round 28 July 368/2: The unhappy children [Blue-coat boys] in their play-hour are compelled [...] to turn their skirts up and gird them in a great hot wadge about their loins . Tom Tiddler’s Ground IV in All Year Round Extra Christmas No. 12 Dec. 22/1: They were artisans and farm-labourers who couldn’t make it out in the old country. All the Year Round (London) 8 Aug. 574/2: [E]ven at the taking of Mooltan, there wasn’t such a gol-mol (I am again talking Hindostanee – I mean, in pure English, ‘row’) as when about two hundred of the native fellows began to break into the jungle of raus-trees and korinda-shrubs, firing matchlocks, yelling like fiends broke loose, rattling metal pans, and blowing horns. All the Year Round 10 Oct. 168: He has a double, who [...] worked the oracle for him [F&H]. ‘Quite Alone’ in All the Year Round 169/2: Been drinkling oceans of soda-and-B., and getting very spooney [...] Keep him off champagne. It’ll drive him mad. Keep him on his soda-and-B. ‘Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions’ in All the Year Round 7 Dec. 4/2: They all set up a laugh when they see us, and one chuckle-headed joskin [...] made the bidding. in All Year Round 7 Dec. 47/2: The discovery turned me over . ‘Dr Marigold’s Prescriptions’ in All the Year Round 7 Dec. 3/2: These Dear Jacks soap the people shameful, but we Cheap Jacks don’t . All Year Round 13 Jan. 6/1: Even in a wretched place like this, at the back of God speed, in a wretched street. All the Year Round XV 102/2: A good Panama will stand you in from fifty to seventy-five pesos de oro — from
ten to fifteen pounds sterling. All the Year Round 13 July 59: To horse a man, is for one of two men who are engaged on precisely similar pieces of work to make extraordinary exertions in order to work down the other man. This is sometimes done simply to see what kind of a workman a new man may be, but often with the much less creditable motive of injuring a fellow workman in the estimate of an employer [F&H]. All the Year Round (London) 28 Dec. 67/2: He proposed to her in the verandah of old Currise’s house; for, by the advice of his counsellor, old Mrs. Fanesome, that infatuated Judge had given an immense ball to the whole ‘society’ of Calcutta, in the hopes that Annie might, by seeing the magnificence of his establishment, repent her of the ‘jawaub,’ and consent to become the second Mrs. Currise. All the Year Round 8 June 568: The first thing that an apprentice is taught, before even he is told the names of the tools, is to ‘keep nix.’ Now ‘keeping nix’ is keeping a bright look-out for overseers, managers, or foremen. All Year Round 13 July 56: There are many men who would regard themselves as ingrates, were they not to celebrate their being shopped, after having been out of collar, by a spree [F&H]. All the Year Round 31 Oct. in (1909) 104/2: When Sacramento was being destroyed by fire [...] a tavern-keeper had a space cleared among the ruins, and over a little board shanty hastily run up was this inscription: ‘Lafayette House. Drinks two bits. Who cares a darn for a fire!’. All the Year Round 27 Jan. 61/2: Road Agent is the polite name in the Rocky Mountains for a highwayman. All the Year Round 5 Mar. ‘Byegone Cant (Geo. II) n.p.: Clumpertons agape at the giant proportions of the still somewhat new St. Paul’s would turn from their wondering walks to shudder and shrink at the ghastly gallows exhibition at Newgate [F&H]. All the Year Round 17 15/1: The cockney must ride on ’bus or coach, on hearse or dray, on Whitechapel brougham. All the Year Round 22 Sept. 355: Blackbirders, the kidnappers for labour purposes on the islands of the Pacific. All the Year Round [as 1868]. All the Year Round 33 542: Masherdom may exist somewhere, but if so it lies, like Bohemia, ‘in longitude rather uncertain, and in latitude certainly vague.’ Probably, both Masherdom and Bohemia have their most substantial existence in the pages of satirical journal. All Year Round 18 Oct. 29/2: Door-step cleaners—known among themselves and their own class as steppers . ‘Aus. Colloquialisms’ in All Year Round 30 July 66/2: The tea [...] is naturally of rather a rough-and-ready description, and when the stalks and coarse particles of the fragrant leaf float thickly thereon, it is sometimes graphically styled ‘post-and-rails’ tea . ‘Aus. Colloquialisms’ in All Year Round 30 July 67/2: A native of Queensland is a ‘banana-lander’. ‘Aus. Colloquialisms’ in All Year Round 30 July 68/1: ‘To be bushed’ [...] is applied to a person in any mental or physical difficulty or muddle. ‘Aus. Colloquialisms’ in All Year Round 30 July 66/2: ‘To go to camp’ [...] now signifies in the mouth of a dweller in houses, simply ‘to lie down’, ‘to go to bed’ .