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The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville choose

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[US] T.C. Haliburton Clockmaker 111: There’s no such singers anywhere; they beat the Eyetalians a long chalk.
at Eyetie, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 46: He is a most splendid man that — we class him No. 1, letter A.
at A-1, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 261: ‘Look at that ’ere Dives,’ they say, ‘what an all-fired scrape he got into by his avarice with Lazarus.’.
at all-fired, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 23: That everlastin’ almighty villain, Van Buren.
at almighty, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 270: Then comes a Doctor, and a prime article he is too.
at article, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 54: He [...] never said another word, lookin as mad as a hatter the whole blessed time.
at ...a hatter under mad as..., adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 106: We’ve had politics with us, till we’re dog sick of ’em.
at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 154: English quality ladies were awful bold.
at awful, adv.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 284: That is a narrer squeak, it fairly bangs all.
at bang, v.1
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 181: We let them have it slap bang.
at slap-bang, adv.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 87: Well, well [...] if that don’t bang the bush!!
at bang the bush (v.) under bang, v.1
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 254: A bean pole of a lawyer.
at beanpole, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 19: I expect the world don’t contain the beat of that.
at beat, n.2
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 270: I’ll put the big wigs thro’ their facins.
at bigwig, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 25: Bad luck to ’em, says Pat, if I warn’t properly bit.
at bit, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 155: I call him Clay arter our senator, who is a prime bit of stuff.
at bit of stuff, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 274: I was properly bit by them, you may depend; they didn’t pay cost, for I couldn’t recommend them with a clear conscience.
at bite, v.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 232: Take a stick and give him a rael good quiltin, jist tantune him like blazes, and set him to work.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 54: He [...] never said another word, lookin as mad as a hatter the whole blessed time.
at blessed, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 60: One of those blue-noses, with his go-to-meetin clothes on.
at bluenose, n.1
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker (1843) I 178: He’ll pay up the great folks this hitch, he’ll let ’em have their own, he’s jist the boy that can do it.
at boy, the, n.2
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 176: Poor devil, you’ve brought your pigs to a pretty market, that’s a fact.
at bring one’s hogs to a fair market (v.) under bring, v.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 123: They are bull-necked, bull-headed folks, I vow; sulky, ugly-tempered, vicious critters.
at bullheaded, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 159: I bunged up both eyes for him and put in the dead lights in two tu’s.
at bung up, v.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 166: Well, father, I thought he’d a fainted too, he was so struck all of a heap, he was completely bung fungered.
at bungfungered, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 157: A crowd of folks cried out, Down with the Yankee, let him have it [...] and they carried on pretty high I tell you.
at carry on, v.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 78: Thinks I to myself, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse, I see how the cat jumps.
at see which way the cat jumps (v.) under cat, n.1
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 115: I vow I feel ashamed to be seen with such a catamaran as that, and that colt looks like Saytan himself.
at catamaran, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 48: They [i.e. nutmegs] were all prime, first chop.
at first chop, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 40: If a man knows how to cypher, he is sure to get rich. We are a ‘calculatin’ people, we all cypher.
at cipher, v.
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