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The Sazerac Lying Club choose

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[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 94: The wind knocked one of them ‘high-you’ muckamuck English lords clear out of his saddle.
at muck-a-muck, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 188: I don’t care a cent if he did.
at not care a cent, v.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 63: That communication as was jest read by the Chair don’t amount to a hill of beans.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 68: They hung him as dead as a nit.
at dead as..., adj.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 51: You better bet your boots, boys, I wasn’t slow in takin’ aim.
at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 108: These here office-seeking cusses can stand all the blackguardin’ you’ve a mind to give ’em; you can abuse ’em all you want.
at blackguard, v.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 141: Passing bogus gold-dust [...] also met the punishment of death.
at bogus, adj.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 160: ‘Smith?’ said the boy, ‘which Smith do you want? Let’s see – there’s big Smith and Little Smith [...] Bottle-nose Smith.’.
at bottle-nose, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 151: ‘Here’s four bullets,’ said Brown, as he reached for the pot.
at bullet, n.2
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 59: I was busted flatter’n a cold slap-jack.
at bust, adj.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 185: Her husband, that carrotty-headed old cat.
at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 77: I was strapped as flat as a shingle.
at strapped (for cash), adj.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 237: A Celestial maiden named Sing Loy passed in her checks.
at celestial, adj.2
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 237: A Celestial maiden named Sing Loy passed in her checks.
at pass in one’s checks (v.) under check, n.1
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 51: The ba’r was too clus’ to me [...] The other boys was up in the trees, waitin’ to see the circus open, and hollerin’ to me to grab that gun.
at circus, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 21: At the same time make a nice little clean-up for himself.
at clean-up, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 193: This was the clincher.
at clincher, n.1
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 203: I’ll bet forty-five to fifteen I can lick the stuffin’ out of the doggoned, ornery, consarned critter.
at consarned, adj.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 184: What wouldn’t I give if I could cuss like a man.
at cuss, v.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 178: He little knows that getting cut out of a ‘gal’ by another ‘feller’ is a sorrow not confined to school-boys alone.
at cut out, v.2
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 58: Stampeded by the dog-goned, dod-rotted --- of Injins.
at dod-rotted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 89: He’s laid up with a pritty bad dose of mounting fever.
at dose, n.1
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 104: He made his allowance considerably in excess of the ‘three fingers’.
at finger, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 51: One of them elevators you hear about in them fust-class hotels down to ’Frisco.
at ’Frisco, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 205: I’m a D.O.G. (danged old galoot).
at galoot, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 160: ‘Smith?’ said the boy, ‘which Smith do you want? Let’s see – there’s big Smith and Little Smith [...] Mushhead Smith.’.
at mush-head, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 45: I always used to go heeled with bread and ’lasses...for fear of accidents.
at heeled, adj.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 26: There come up one of them hell-roarin’ big snow-storms.
at hell-roaring (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 176: What in blazes do you want to do with sugar?
at what in hell...?, phr.
[US] F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 153: I’m in a hellofafix.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
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