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Miss Display’d choose

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[Ire] Head Miss Display’d 121: [She will use] a Convenient House, standing in a Convenient Place, for the exercises of her deeds of darkness.
at convenient, n.
[Ire] Head Miss Display’d 129: The meretricious reputation of the Park, fell much to decay, by the decease of the famous Patroness thereof Nab C–.
at Mother Knab-cony (n.) under mother, n.
[Ire] Head Miss Display’d 70: She would let neither of them touch her with a Hoppole.
at wouldn’t touch it with a hop pole under touch, v.1
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