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[US] S. Hale letter 10 Nov. in Atkinson Letters of Susan Hale (1919) 15: I’ve been engaged this week in a pecunious heik; to wit, getting money from the ladies of the Parish to get a new gown for Dr. Hedge.
at hike, n.1
[US] S. Hale letter 26 Oct. in Atkinson Letters of Susan Hale (1919) 23: The street is narrow, so it looks quite deep, — and full of Arabs raising Jack all the time.
at cut up jack, v.
[US] S. Hale letter 9 Nov. in Atkinson Letters of Susan Hale (1919) 91: If I were alone, I should float on till a week from Tuesday and then skedaddle (I think you have this word, do you not?).
at float, v.1
[US] S. Hale letter 9 Nov. in Atkinson Letters of Susan Hale (1919) 91: If I were alone, I should float on till a week from Tuesday and then skedaddle (I think you have this word, do you not?).
at skedaddle, v.
[US] S. Hale letter 17 Mar. in Atkinson Letters of Susan Hale (1919) 163: We loved the donkey business so that we arranged for another trip the next day. [...] We were all very happy on our ‘donks’.
at donk, n.1
[US] S. Hale letter from Jamaica, 27 Mar. in Atkinson Letters of Susan Hale (1919) 384: Two darks are lying on their back on the sunny curbstone.
at dark, n.
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