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The Englishman in Kansas choose

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[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 43: No highfalutin’ airs here, you know. Keep that for them Yankee Blue-bellies down East.
at bluebelly, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 206: He was ‘took aback some, just a spot; he’d never sot eyes on such a salvagerous set of coons; he was nary lick afeared, not by a long sight’.
at coon, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 51: Just let me [...] give you a word of caution, which you may find useful, now that you’re setting foot in these here Western diggins.
at diggings, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 48: I’ll drop the first one of you that opens his mouth for abolition cusses; I be dog-gauned if I don’t.
at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 47: If there’s a doggauned Abolitionist aboard, I should like to see him, that I should. I’m the man to put a chunk o’ lead into his woolly head, right off; yes, sir, that’s what I’ll do.
at doggone, adj.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 47: I tell you I’m bound to drop some one afore I’m done – that I am. I’ve got to fight for the liberties of my country and our glorious constitution, and rid the place of those cowardly blue-bellied Yankies.
at drop, v.3
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 117: There were Germans also – called by the Americans ‘Dutchmen’ – who, intent on making a livelihood, have settled so thickly in Kansas.
at Dutchman, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 58: By this time the pistols were adjusted, and as he walked out, their valiant wearer continued a kind of soliloquy – ‘Well, reckon I’m fixed now!’.
at fixed, adj.1
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 83: Any voter who professed himself ready to take it [an oath] was threatened with instant death, amid cries of ‘Shoot him!’ ‘Cut his guts out!’.
at gut, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 264: This infernal scoundrel will have to be hemped yet.
at hemp, v.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 36: The General’s ‘Now, boys, let her rip!’ was answered by some of the shot missing the mark.
at let her rip!, excl.1
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 43: No highfalutin’ airs here, you know.
at highfalutin, adj.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 43: Here, boys, drink. Liquors, captain, for the crowd. Step up this way, old hoss, and liquor.
at horse, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 43: Step up this way, old hoss, and liquor.
at old horse, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 43: I reckon we’ll make the place hot enough for them soon, that’s a fact.
at hot, adj.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 206: He was ‘took aback some, just a spot; he’d never sot eyes on such a salvagerous set of coons; he was nary lick afeared, not by a long sight’.
at lick, n.1
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 56: Hangin’s a ’nation sight too good for him, the mean cuss. He ought to have a shot through his head right away – that’s how I’d sarve him.
at nation, adv.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 43: Step, and liquor here, you sir. A heap finer this stuff than that there rot-gut ashore.
at rotgut, n.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 56: Let us get hold of him; if we don’t sarve him out, powerful quick.
at serve out (v.) under serve, v.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 121: We’ve stood them a mighty steep time, but they ain’t agoin’ to carry on that powerful any longer.
at steep, adj.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 120: Tall times these, gentlemen.
at tall, adj.
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 43: Yes, sir, this yere tool of mine [handling a pistol] it isn’t the first time it has seen a Blue-Belly.
at tool, n.1
[UK] T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 129: I’m dreadful easy to whip; yes, sir-ee, dreadful easy. So jest jump me up, stranger, and we’ll smash in all-createdly.
at whip, v.1
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