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[US] Democratic Press (Ravenna, OH) 27 May 1/3: ‘Let’s raise the ante to twenty dollars,’ said Sparks [...] ‘Jingo! it’s too much! You’ll bust me!’ exclaimed Brown.
at bust, v.1
[US] Democratic Press (Ravenna, OH) 27 May 1/7: A refutation accordingly appears, entitled ‘The Dipper Dipt, or the Anabaptists Ducked and Plunged over Head and Ears’.
at dipper, n.1
[US] Democratic Press (Ravenna, OH) 27 May 1/3: ‘Let’s raise the ante to twenty dollars,’ said Sparks [...] ‘Jingo! it’s too much! You’ll bust me!’ exclaimed Brown.
at jingo!, excl.
[US] Democratic Press (Ravenna, OH) 28 Sept. 2/3: This ended the grand Radical fizzle.
at fizzle, n.2
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