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Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 4/3: Sambo reached Bungaree’s nose with a hearty smack from his left, drawing his cork. [First blood for Sambo].at draw a cork, v.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 4/3: Sambo reached Bungaree’s nose with a hearty smack from his left, drawing his cork. [First blood for Sambo]. ‘A Week in Oxford’ in Bell’s Life in Sydney 25 Oct. 4/3: They [i.e. horses] have the right quantum of aristocratic blood, are three-quarters thorough, and as they say in the east, are twelve annas in the rupee.at not sixteen annas to the rupee (adj.) under anna, n.
‘The Raid of the Aborigines’ in Bell’s Life in Sydney 4 Jan. 4/1: Who had filled with fat beef all their dillies and bags.at dilly-bag, n.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 4/2: No lobsters blue nor beak, I trust, will on our sport be pouncing.at beak, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 3/2: All the stable boys came out and burst their sides a laughin’ at the man as they said, who had bought the bellows-mender.at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
‘A Week in Oxford’ in Bell’s Life in Sydney 25 Oct. 4/3: [...] whose ‘varmint pink’ may be seen peeping out beneath the cuffs of their ‘big bens’* *Anglice, great coats.at benjamin, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 22 Nov. 3/2: Whatever tenderness poor Biddy was in the habit of exciting outside, ’twas plain she had no sympathy iwith their Worships.at biddy, n.2
‘A Week in Oxford’ in Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Nov. 4/3: Besides, until this night no one, for many years; had dared to disobey the exile-enforced mandate: this made defying and eluding the ‘bigwigs’ still more delighted.at bigwig, n.
‘A Week in Oxford’ in Bell’s Life in Sydney 25 Oct. 2/2: The nearest approach to things ecclesiastical was a bowl of ‘bishop’ .at bishop, n.2
‘A Week in Oxford’ in Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Nov. 4/5: Sundry proposals are entertained for fresh attacks on ‘the old buck's bank,’ and consultations granted as to the wording of a letter best calculated to make him ‘bleed freely’.at bleed, v.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 30 Aug. 3/2: We hare too much reason to fear that the avocation [of hawking] is adopted more for a ‘blind’ than any thing else, by these skulking, idle fellows.at blind, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 20 Sept. 3/2: He [...] made another tremendous charge with his block, catching the mad’un in the pantry, which caused him to make an immediate deposit of all the luxuries contained in his storeroom.at block, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 4 Oct. 3/4: Jemima was a regular blue [...] who looked like Juno and talked like Minerva—the Minerva library, I mean.at blue, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 4/2: Massa Sambo Sutton is welcome to the blunt.at blunt, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Feb 2/6: Two bob a nob to Sydney and no mistake .at bob a nob (n.) under bob, n.3
Bell’s Life in Sydney 8 Nov. 2/2: The well-known Plough Inn, over which, presides the only thorough-going Boniface in the gigantic island of New Holland.at boniface, n.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 2/1: Not so fast, Mr. Davis, pray do not forget, / In spite of your bounce, you’ve not won it yet.at bounce, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 11 Oct. 2/5: Scotchie caught him with his right on the side of the knowledge-box.at knowledge box, n.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 11 Oct. 2/5: Scotchie planting his left on Drake’s breadbasket, which floored him.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 13 Sept. 3/1: To amuse the bystanders and collect a few browns, Bobby rolled over the same distance in five minutes.at brown, n.
‘A Week in Oxford’ in Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Nov. 4/5: Sundry proposals are entertained for fresh attacks on ‘the old buck's bank,’ and consultations granted as to the wording of a letter best calculated to make him ‘bleed freely’.at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Dec. 3/3: On entering Driscoll's yard [...] he cried out ‘dub up you black b—r’.at bugger, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 11 Oct. 2/5: The ‘Bums’ had laid a detainer on the goods and chattels.at bum, n.2
Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Feb 3/3: Mary [...] transferred her anger on the instant to the ‘trap,’ on whose countenance she planted her ‘bunch of fives’.at bunch of fives, n.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 4/2: But quickly on his pins again he meditates a teaser / Bungs up the eye of Bungaree and clareted his sneezer.at bung up, v.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 20 Sept. 3/2: Notwithstanding all the bunkum of his most sanguine backer, he could not be persuaded to again stand.at bunkum, n.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 13 Dec. 2/2: Hough then embraced his man by encircling the neck with his right arm [...] twisted him and fell upon him-a regular burster.at buster, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 27 Sept. 3/1: The Cabbage was knocked down. First blood for Rufus.at cabbage, n.1
Bell’s Life in Sydney 27 Sept. 3/1: Peter Brenan, a carotty-headed brickmaker.at carrotty, adj.
Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 4/3: Bungaree walked quietly to the edge of the ring, and threw in his caster, immediately after introducing his own person between the ropes.at caster, n.1
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