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The Vicar of Wakefield choose

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[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 78: ‘A fig for the silver rims,’ cried my wife, in a passion.
at fig, a, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 140: May I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an underturnkey in Newgate.
at anodyne necklace, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 222: Tell them they are two arrant little baggages.
at baggage, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 152: The scheme thus blown up, I had some thoughts of fairly shipping back to England.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 144: I was now obliged to take a middle course, and write for bread.
at bread, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 147: The lady was only a woman of the town, and the fellow her bully and a sharper.
at bully, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 82: No, I declare off; I’ll fight no more.
at declare off, v.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 31: My wife called a council on the conduct of the day. She was of the opinion that it was a most fortunate hit.
at hit, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 56: By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
at jingo!, excl.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 103: Olivia would be drawn as an Amazon, sitting upon a bank of flowers, dressed in a green joseph.
at Joseph, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 146: My business was to attend him at auctions [...] and to assist at tattering a kip, as the phrase was, when we had a mind for a frolic.
at tatter a kip (v.) under kip, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 79: Marry, hang the idiot!
at marry!, excl.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 40: For strike me ugly [...] if I should not find as much pleasure in choosing my mistress by the information of a lamp under the clock of St. Dunstan’s.
at strike me blind! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 62: You fools, I could have promised you a Prince and a Nabob for half the money.
at nabob, n.
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 63: We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; not altogether like the scrubs about us.
at scrub, n.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 163: You do nothing but soak with the guests all day long.
at soak, v.1
[UK] O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 147: The lady was only a woman of the town, and the fellow her bully and a sharper.
at woman about town (n.) under woman, n.
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