1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 12: It’s as big as all out-doors, and you know how big that is.at all outdoors, n.
1860 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.
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 278: He is as mad as a polar-bear dancin on hot iron.at mad as..., adj.
1860 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.
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: Now, Pompey, dere is one natur ob nigger, and one natur of Massa Buckra.at backra, n.
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 18: You are a cussed bad bake into the bargain.at bakebrain (n.) under bake, v.1
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 220: Don’t the British beat all natur in their way?at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
1860 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
1860 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.
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 297: I hope I may never see your cantin’, cheatin’, hypocritical, lyin’ face agin.at canting, adj.
1860 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.
1860 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.
1860 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
1860 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.
1860 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
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: I can’t talk book learnin’ [...] nor eberlastin’ long words.at everlasting, adj.
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 250: I can’t talk book learnin’ [...] nor eberlastin’ long words.at everlasting, adv.
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 194: His eldest daughter who is goggle-eyed, is known as ‘Stare Case’.at goggle-eyed, adj.
1860 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.
1860 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
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 301: ‘Is that all, you goney?’ says she, ‘it’s lucky your precious neck ain’t broke.’.at goney, n.
1860 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
1860 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
1860 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
1860 T. Haliburton Season Ticket 245: Then, from shame, passion, and excitement, off he went into highstrikes.at highstrikes, n.