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Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 7: ‘How goes it?’ said Kentuck, looking past Stumpy toward the candle-box. ‘All serene,’ replied Stumpy. ‘Anything up?’ ‘Nothing.’.at all serene, adj.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 7: ‘How goes it?’ said Kentuck, looking past Stumpy toward the candle-box. ‘All serene,’ replied Stumpy. ‘Anything up?’ ‘Nothing.’. Luck of Roaring Camp n.p.: Want me to liquor, stranger? I am thar.at be there, v.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 251: I have heard fragments of an entertaining style of dialogue usually known as ‘chaffing,’ which has just taken place between Biddy in No. 9 and the butcher who brings the dinner.at biddy, n.2
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 47: You were in big luck that Joaquin wasn’t hanging round when you dropped in to-night.at big, adj.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 130: Must have been asleep, sir. Hope you had a pleasant nap. Bully place for a nice quiet snooze – empty stage, sir!at bully, adj.1
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 251: I have heard fragments of an entertaining style of dialogue usually known as ‘chaffing,’ which has just taken place between Biddy in No. 9 and the butcher who brings the dinner.at chaffing, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 245: [story title] John Chinaman.at John Chinaman, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 95: ‘I’m cleaned out again. Jack,’ he continued, in a whining tone, that formed a pitiable contrast to his bulky figure, ‘can’t you help me with a hundred till to-morrow’s clean-up?’.at cleaned (out), adj.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 179: The man with the glazed hat [...] raised his head with a coarse, brutal laugh, and said in a loud voice, ‘Want her yourself, do you? That cock won’t fight here, young man!’.at that cock won’t fight under cock, n.3
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 132: Did n’t she flash up grandly and beautifully and scornfully? [...] and was n’t old Fagg awfully cut up?at cut up, adj.1
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 15: Dern my skin if he was n’t a talking to a jaybird as was a sittin’ on his lap.at darn my skin! (excl.) under darn, v.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 134: You remember how the Coyote Tunnel went in, and how awfully we shareholders were done!at done, adj.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 65: Tennessee smiled, showed his white teeth, and, saying, ‘Euchred, old man!’ held out his hand.at euchre, v.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 132: When the ‘Skyscraper’ arrived at San Francisco we had a grand ‘feed’.at feed, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 72: Earlier in the day some local satirist had erected a temporary tombstone at Sandy’s head, bearing the inscription, ‘Effects of McCorkle’s whiskey, – kills at forty rods’.at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
Luck of Roaring Camp 51: They advised me to send him to Frisco to the hospital, for he was no good to any one, and would be a baby all his life.at ’Frisco, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 206: He inveighed bitterly against the system of ranch-holding by the ‘greasers,’ as he was pleased to term the native Californians.at greaser, n.1
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 227: When are you goin’ to give us some grub? I’m hungry ’nough to skin and eat a hoss.at grub, n.2
Luck of Roaring Camp 10: It’s playing it pretty low down on this yer baby to ring in fun on him that he ain’t going to understand.at ring in, v.1
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 15: There they was, just as free and sociable as anything you please, a jawin’ at each other just like two cherry-bums.at jaw, v.1
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 66: As they approached, they at once recognized the venerable ‘Jenny’ and the two-wheeled cart as the property of Tennessee’s Partner.at jenny, n.1
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 245: My acquaintance with John has been made up of weekly interviews, involving the adjustment of the washing accounts, so that I have not been able to study his character from a social view-point or observe him in the privacy of the domestic circle.at John, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 134: The old pro-pri-e-tor (he wriggled out the word and the point of his pick) warn’t of much account (a long stroke of the pick for a period). He was green, and let the boys about here jump him.at jump, v.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 31: When a man gets a streak of luck, – nigger-luck, – he don’t get tired. The luck gives in first.at nigger luck (n.) under nigger, n.1
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 95: You see I’ve got to send money home to the old woman.at old woman, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp 10: It’s playing it pretty low down on this yer baby to ring in fun on him that he ain’t going to understand.at play, v.
Luck of Roaring Camp 2: Yet a few of the spectators were, I think, touched by her sufferings. Sandy Tipton thought it was rough on Sal.at rough on under rough, adj.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 96: But come, what do you say to a little game? Give us a show to double this hundred.at show, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 43: Thar ain’t nobody but him within ten mile of the shanty, and that’ar d—d oll skeesicks knows it.at skeezicks, n.
Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 31: We’ve had a streak of bad luck since we left Poker Flat, — you come along, and slap you get into it, too.at slap, adv.
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