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She Stoops to Conquer choose

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[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: At the Ladies’ Club in town I’m called their agreeable Rattle. Rattle, child, is not my real name, but one I ’m known by. My name is Solomons.
at agreeable rattle, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Jack Slang the horse doctor, Little Aminadab that grinds the music box.
at Aminadab, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: Ah! could you but see Bet Bouncer of these parts, you might then talk of beauty.
at bouncer, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: I never saw such a bouncing, swaggering puppy since I was born.
at bouncing, adj.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: To me he appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue.
at brass, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act IV: I find him no better than a coxcomb and a bully.
at bully, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: Have you got any of your — a — what d’ye call it in the house?
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: A very impudent fellow this! but he’s a character, and I’ll humour him.
at character, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: That’s a damned confounded — crack.
at crack, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II n.p.: If I’m to have any good, let it come of itself; not to keep dinging it, dinging it into one so [F&H].
at ding, v.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act IV: A damned up and down hand, as if it was disguised in liquor.
at disguised, adj.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: This pretty smooth dialogue has done for me.
at do for, v.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Now, gentlemen, silence is a song. the ’squire is going to knock himself down for a song.
at knock down, v.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: This stammer in my address [...] can never permit me to soar above the reach of a milliner’s ’prentice, or one of the duchesses of Drury-lane.
at duchess, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Ecod, if you mind him, he’ll persuade you that his mother was an alderman, and his aunt a justice of peace.
at ecod!, excl.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Now, if I pleased, I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
at grumbletonian, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act II: I shall be confoundedly ridiculous. Yet, hang it! take courage.
at hang it (all)! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act V: The loud confident creature, that keeps it up with Mrs. Mantrap, and old Miss Biddy Buckskin, till three in the morning?
at keep it up (v.) under keep, v.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer 1: Master Hardcastle’s! Lack-a-daisy, my masters, you’re come a deadly deal wrong!
at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: There’s Mrs. Mantrap, Lady Betty Blackleg, the countess of Sligo, Mrs. Langhorns, old Miss Biddy Buckskin.
at man-trap, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: Zounds, here they are! Morrice! Prance! (Exit Hastings).
at morris, v.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: My old luck: I never nicked seven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.
at nick, v.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: I’m sure you did not treat Miss Hardcastle, that was here a while ago, in this obstropulous manner.
at obstropolous, adj.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act V: So if your own horses be ready, you may whip off with cousin.
at whip off, v.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: She has been saying a hundred tender things, and setting off her pretty monster as the very pink of perfection.
at pink, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act V: Rabbit me, but I’d rather ride forty miles after a fox than ten with such varment.
at rabbit, v.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: I’ll wager the rascals a crown, / They always preach best with a skinful.
at skinful, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act III: Consult your glasses, my dear, and then see if, with such a pair of eyes, you want any better sparklers. [...] Does your cousin Con want any jewels in your eyes to set off her beauty?
at sparkler, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: The squire has got spunk in him.
at spunk, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: The daughter a tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole.
at trapes, v.
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