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Fighting Caravans choose

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[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 104: I’m a horned sinner if some gang ain’t robbin’ the wagon!
at I’m a nigger, phr.
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 55: I’d bored the fellar but for Buff upsettin’ him.
at bore, v.1
[US] (con. 1850s) Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 222: Jim [...] told me about your gettin’ shot in thet bad brush Couch had with Comanches.
at brush, n.2
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 89: Bah! Don’t come that on me, just to make me feel good.
at come on, v.1
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 88: One of them d-dinged Kiowas.
at dinged, adj.
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 89: I guess I’ve downed my first redskin.
at down, v.3
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 114: I found four Injuns alive yet, so I sent them off to the Happy Huntin’-grounds.
at happy hunting grounds (n.) under happy, adj.
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 131: Buff, it’s tough lines. Tom is dyin’.
at hard lines, n.
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 108: Here’s the outfit of the robbers. You can have first pick.
at outfit, n.1
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 208: You bet we grabbed our guns an’ skedaddled out pronto.
at skedaddle, v.
[US] Z. Grey Fighting Caravans (1992) 250: It sort of gave me the willeys to listen to you at night.
at willies, n.
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