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Cape Girardeau Democrat choose

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[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 3 Nov. 5/4: He had placed them in the salesroom for stamping [...] and not for the purpose of offering to sell them [...] as this Leatherhead vagbond would have the people believe.
at leatherhead, n.
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/1: I caught a fish hot off the bat.
at right off the bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/2: I was feeling pretty chesty, and up on myself, ’long of ketchin’ this fish.
at chesty, adj.
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/1: ‘What you caught?’ says I. ’Not a dod-binged thing,’ says the boy’.
at dod-bimmed (adj.) under dod, n.1
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/2: I looses my balance and goes hoofs over elbows, kerplunk!
at hoof, n.
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/2: I looses my balance and goes hoofs over elbows, kerplunk!
at ker-, pfx
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/2: Well, now [...] I’m goin’ t’ lick the socks clean off you.
at lick the socks off (v.) under lick, v.1
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/2: But the kid only looks mad. ‘Say,’ he says, ’that’s a pretty smoky notion’.
at smoky, adj.1
[US] Cape Girardeau Democrat (MO) 5 May 7/2: I was feeling pretty chesty, and up on myself, ’long of ketchin’ this fish.
at up on oneself (adj.) under up, prep.
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