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Till Human Voices Wake Us choose

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[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us ms 16: [A] big demon walked into Joe’s cell with his coat off. How’re you feeling, he says? Crook, Joe says, and pretends to start puking in a corner. The demon walks up and down the cell. Pity, he keeps saying, I just feel like a round or two.
at demon, n.2
[NZ] I. Hamilton pre-pub. extract from Till Human Voices Wake Us 14: I saw him standing near me in the line-up for counting and searching.
at line-up, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 20: When a [...] government puts such downandouts in charge of an intelligent section of the community [etc].
at down-and-out, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 124: There’s so-and-so , he’d shout.
at so-and-so, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 196: The cowardly soandsoes ought to be soandsoed and soandsoed.
at so-and-so, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 43: They give themselves airs, these soandsos.
at so-and-so, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 35: The famous white trousers [were] patched from arsehole to breakfast time.
at from arsehole to breakfast (time) under arsehole, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 98: You’re a coward [...] a rape artist, you’re a murderer.
at -artist, sfx
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 45: The only thing he knew was physical violence [...] They were both as rough as guts.
at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 62: A sort of assupwards argument for Pacifism.
at ass upwards (adj.) under ass, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 5: As an Aussie once said to me [etc].
at Aussie, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 32: He’d received a back-hander for his temerity.
at back-hander, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 175: He was supremely confident, supremely unaware. You couldn’t knock him back.
at knock back, v.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 153: I don’t suppose Dick made more of a ballsup [...] than anyone else.
at balls-up, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 17: They didn’t bash me but they didn’t have any need to.
at bash, v.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 17: I’d heard stories of bashings and I was fully prepared to believe them.
at bashing, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 25: The last of thirteen appearances in front of the beaks.
at beak, n.1
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 52: The Clam was lucky not to get a belt on the ear.
at belt, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 5: When man really comes up against nature, you can bet your last shirt buttons on nature.
at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 169: The sound of his activities reached the large ears of the Big Shot of the whole camp system.
at big shot, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 32: This bird [i.e. a prison officer] started asking me questions.
at bird, n.1
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 167: Merv was one of the unsung heroes of this war, and i only hope they [i.e. prisons] haven’t bitched him up permanently.
at bitch up, v.1
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 81: The Maria was there to meet us.
at Black Maria, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 13: The sort of blarney doesn’t go down well with me.
at blarney, n.1
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 20: Let them bludge their way through life, any way they want.
at bludge, v.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 16: It isn’t good for a pacifist to meet these civilian bludgers during a war.
at bludger, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 89: A bludger is a pimp, a man who lives on women.
at bludger, n.
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 127: Bluey had lost his seaman's ticket over his jail blues, and I don't suppose he’ll ever get it back.
at blue, n.1
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 110: Fourteen conchies [...] doing a fortnight over some blue in the camps.
at blue, n.4
[NZ] I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 177: [of prison rule-breaking] He’s doing six years and the collar and if he got in a bad blue now, he’d probably never leave.
at blue, n.4
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