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‘Ben Allah Achmet’ Bab Ballads 200: It made him moan – it made him groan [...] Why should I hesitate to own / That pain was in his little tummy? at tummy, n.
‘Ben Allah Achmet’ Bab Ballads 200: It made him moan – it made him groan [...] Why should I hesitate to own / That pain was in his little tummy? ‘Gentle Alice Brown’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 141: I’ve studied human nature, and I know a thing or two.at know a thing or two, v.
‘Mystic Selvagee’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 268: He gave him fifty pounds a year, / His rum, his baccy, and his beer.at bacca, n.
‘Baines Carew, Gentleman’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 71: My wife (in other matters sane) / Pretends that I’m a Dicky bird! / She makes me sing, ‘Too-whit, too-wee!’.at dicky-bird, n.1
‘An Unfortunate Likeness’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 199: ‘Sir,’ said the grand Shakesperian boy / (Continuing to blaze away).at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
‘The Bumboat Woman’s Story’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 153: A bumboat woman was I, and I faithfully served the ships.at bum-boat, n.
‘Sir Macklin’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 48: ‘Oh, bosh!’ the worthy Bishop said.at bosh!, excl.1
‘The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo Again’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 236: Some sailors, whom he did not know, / Had landed there not long ago, / And taught them ‘Bother!’ also, ‘Blow!’.at bother!, excl.
‘To the Terrestrial Globe’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 133: What though I’m in a sorry case? / What though I cannot meet my bills? / What though I suffer toothache ills?at case, n.1
‘Story of Prince Agib’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 119: I was walloped with a cat / For listening at the keyhole of a door.at cat, n.3
‘An Unfortunate Likeness’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 200: Forgive these yells and cellar-flaps.at cellar-flap, n.
‘Etiquette’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 303: Old chummies at the Charterhouse were Robinson and he!at chum, n.
‘The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 57: ‘Right Reverend Sir, in half a crack!’ / Replied that dancing man.at crack, n.1
‘The Discontented Sugar Broker’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 86: I hate to preach – I hate to prate – / I’m no fanatic croaker.at croaker, n.1
‘Peter the Wag’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 129: One day that Crusher lost his way / Near Poland Street, Soho.at crusher, n.1
‘Haunted’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 314: With a turnip head and a ghostly wail, / And a splash of blood on the dickey!at dicky, n.1
‘The Mystic Selvagee’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 272: ‘Oh, you be hanged,’ said Captain P.at hang, v.1
‘The Haughty Actor’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 240: This part was smaller, by a bit / Than that in which he made a hit.at hit, n.
‘The Troubadour’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 30: They gets it pretty hot, / The maidens what we cotch.at get it hot (v.) under hot, adv.
‘At a Pantomime’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 311: They only see in the humbug old / A holiday every year, / And handsome gifts, and joys untold.at humbug, n.
‘The Bumboat Woman’s Story’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 156: When Jack Tars meet, they meet with a ‘Messmate, ho! What cheer?’.at jack tar, n.1
‘Gentle Alice Brown’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 137: I have helped mamma steal a little kiddy from its dad, / I’ve assisted dear papa in cutting up a little lad.at kiddy, n.
‘The Precocious Baby’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 62: With their ‘Law, dear me!’ / ‘Did you ever see?’.at law!, excl.
‘Mister William’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 147: And William got a ‘lifer,’ which annoyed him very much. / For, ah! he never reconciled himself to life in gaol.at lifer, n.
‘Phrenology’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 276: I must have made a mull, / This matter I’ve been blind in it.at mull, n.2
‘Gentle Alice Brown’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 141: I will nab this gay young sorter, terrify him into fits.at nab, v.1
‘The Two Majors’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 250: I’ll scatter the brains in your noddle, I swear, / All over the stony parade!at noddle, n.
‘The Sailor Boy to his Lass’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 219: But, ah, Matilda! / It did annoy your sailor boy / To find it was your pa, Matilda.at pa, n.1
‘Emily, John, James, & I’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 256: On sharpers and pickpockets, swindlers and pads.at pad, n.1
‘The Haughty Actor’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 244: Dispirited became our friend – / Depressed his moral pecker.at pecker, n.2
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