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Alta Calif. 12 July 1/5: Silver is not Plenty on the Pharaoh and his host’s Tables, and any body can sea it, and bet a red on any card he chuses [DA].at red, n.
Alta Calif. 12 July 1/5: Silver is not Plenty on the Pharaoh and his host’s Tables, and any body can sea it, and bet a red on any card he chuses [DA]. Alta Calif. 6 Apr. 2/3: Brady says his wife struck him over the calabash with a brass candlestick [DA].at calabash, n.
Alta Calif. 16 Jan. cited in S.F. Examiner 4 June 1921 12/3: It [i.e. a ‘grand impromptu ball’] was decidedly ‘staggish,’ with a touch of the ‘free and easy’ .at staggish (adj.) under stag, adj.
Alta Calif. 18 May 2/2: Their deportment gave an unexceptional evidence of the high toned gentleman and thoroughly drilled soldier [DA].at high-tone, adj.
Alta Calif. 20 Apr. 2/2: The May Adams brought 118 ‘Johns’ from the terrestrial kingdom of heaven [DA].at John, n.
Alta Calif. 17 Aug. n.p.: Gentile and Mormon, bull whacker and Pike’s Peaker, all seemed to mingle freely.at bullwhacker, n.
Alta Calif. 15 Mar. 🌐 Last night, as usual, Isaac intruded upon the Captain’s dog-watch lunch – which is, or should be, sacred to himself – and got into trouble. One of the passengers put something into his tea that came near making him throw up his boots.at throw up one’s boots (v.) under throw up, v.
Alta Calif. 30 Apr. 7/6: Major-General Thomas is no sensationalist; he is not given to grape-vine despatches [DA].at grapevine, n.1
Alta Calif. 25 July 1/8: At a convention of drummers held in the smoker it was unanimously resolved that her seat was reserved [...] for the balance of the season [DA].at smoker, n.1
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