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[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 109: As drunk as a lord.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 12: It’s as big as all out-doors, and you know how big that is.
at all outdoors, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 228: I like a man that’s right up and down, as straight as a shingle.
at up-and-down, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 278: He is as mad as a polar-bear dancin on hot iron.
at mad as..., adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 194: The other [daughter] is as ugly as sin.
at ugly as..., adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 54: Aunt Sally, who was a nigger as black as the ace of spades or the devil’s hind leg.
at Aunt Sally, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: Now, Pompey, dere is one natur ob nigger, and one natur of Massa Buckra.
at backra, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 18: You are a cussed bad bake into the bargain.
at bakebrain (n.) under bake, v.1
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 19: Stranger! he is only a bammin of you.
at bam, v.1
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 41: It fairly beats the bugs.
at beat the bugs (v.) under beat, v.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 220: Don’t the British beat all natur in their way?
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 282: His heart has been bleeding without stopping for thirty years [...] It would have burst its boiler long ago, if that large safety-valve hadn’t been fixed in him.
at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 288: He was a Quaker ashore then. [...] I can’t say I pitied old Broadbrim much either.
at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 297: I hope I may never see your cantin’, cheatin’, hypocritical, lyin’ face agin.
at canting, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 254: Beautiful models, ain’t they? real clippers.
at clipper, n.2
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 9: They ain’t no compounds here, no mint juleps [...] sherry cobblers, gum ticklers, phlegm cutters, chain lightening, or sudden death.
at phlegm-cutter, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 295: If I was to take my davy of what I have seen when I went ashore, no livin’ soul would believe me.
at davy, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 9: They hain’t no compounds here, no mint juleps [...] phlegm cutters, chain lightening, or sudden death.
at sudden death, n.1
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: I can’t gib ’em Latin or Greek as church minister does, and I can’t talk dic (dictionary).
at dic, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 297: I do owe you a quiltin’ [...] if I don’t dust your drabs for you, if ever I come across you, then my name ain’t Peabody.
at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: I can’t talk book learnin’ [...] nor eberlastin’ long words.
at everlasting, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: I can’t talk book learnin’ [...] nor eberlastin’ long words.
at everlasting, adv.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 194: His eldest daughter who is goggle-eyed, is known as ‘Stare Case’.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: Yes, half a dollar a day is poor pay, but I must ’fess it’s berry poor preachin’.
at fess, v.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 32: I’ll swop many nannygoats with you, and give you a boot when you tell the best one. [Ibid.] 164 : Why, what is your idea of that word? why, if you nannylize it [...] you’ll find it’s ‘a lively expectation of benefits to come’.
at nanny goat, n.2
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 301: ‘Is that all, you goney?’ says she, ‘it’s lucky your precious neck ain’t broke.’.
at goney, n.
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 251: The Whigs use the Radicals to get into power, and then, in their turn, forget who greased their wheels for them.
at grease, v.1
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 275: By gum, Squire Shegog, we have had the greatest bobbery of a shindy in our carriage as you ever knowed all your born days.
at by gum! (excl.) under gum, n.2
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 9: They ain’t no compounds here, no mint juleps [...] sherry cobblers, gum ticklers, phlegm cutters, chain lightning, or sudden death.
at gum-tickler (n.) under gum, n.1
[US] T. Haliburton Season Ticket 245: Then, from shame, passion, and excitement, off he went into highstrikes.
at highstrikes, n.
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