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The Policeman’s Lantern choose

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[UK] Lantern (N.Y.) II. 67/2: Most, however, of these ‘blood, thunder, and whiskey articles’, are written by raw lads .
at blood, n.1
[UK] Lantern (NO) 10 Nov. 2: Isaac Sontheiner and Grace Richards [...] concluded, in the parlance of the fancy, to double-up.
at Fancy, the, n.
[UK] Lantern (NO) 12 Feb. 3: Dere wus two gals dere dat took de cheese for toughness.
at take the cheese (v.) under cheese, the, n.
[UK] Lantern (N.O) 27 Aug. 2: Willie Jeffreys was on a great hurrah some days ago and hardly able to work.
at hurrah, n.
[UK] Lantern (New Orleans) 8 Sept. 4: To publish the rubbish and slush daily wired here as news.
at slush, n.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Policeman’s Lantern 35: [title] The Man-Basher. [Ibid.] 44: ‘Does that mean for simply knocking him down?’ [...] ‘It means whatever you mean,’ returned the professional ‘basher’.
at basher, n.1
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