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[US] James Hall Legends of the West 46: You are barking up the wrong tree, Johnson.
at bark up the wrong tree, v.
[US] J. Hall Legends of the West 38: It’s a mercy, madam, that the cowardly varments had n’t used you up, body-aciously.
at bodaciously, adv.
[US] J. Hall Legends of the West 37: We have had a smart brush, I assure you.
at brush, n.2
[US] J. Hall Legends of the West 37: A pretty chunk of a fight, I see.
at chunk, n.1
[US] J. Hall Legends of the West 38: These Mingoes act mighty redick’lous [...] They aint the raal true grit, no how.
at real grit (n.) under grit, n.1
[US] James Hall Legends of the West 260: This is a poor shooting-iron for a man to have about him [...] it is of no use in the woods.
at shooting iron, n.
[US] J. Hall Legends of the West 46: Now it doesn’t take a Philadelphia lawyer to tell, that the man who serves the master one day, and the enemy six, has just six chances out of the seven to go to the devil.
at Philadelphia lawyer, n.
[US] J. Hall Legends of the West 50: It sort o’ stirs one up, to hear about old times.
at sort of, phr.
[US] J. Hall Legends of the West 38: These Mingoes [...] ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee-totally obflisticated off of the face of the whole yearth.
at teetotally, adv.
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