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[UK] D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers I 122: She had got a new cotton blouse on [...] ‘Oh, my stars!’ he exclaimed. ‘What a bobby-dazzler!’.
at bobby-dazzler, n.1
[UK] D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers i. 20: Morel never in his life played cards, [...] ‘the devil’s pictures’, he called them!
at devil’s pictures (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers (2003) 178: She is one of those who will want to suck a man’s soul out till he has none of his own left [...] and he is just such a gaby as to let himself be absorbed.
at gaby, n.
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