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[US] Green-Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 12 Apr. 2/3: The King of prussia is as beetle-headed a German and ever made pipes.
at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 28 Aug. 2/7: Bringing the paper near his carbuncle face and straining those ‘visual organs’.
at carbuncle face, n.
[US] Green-Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 15 Aug. 4/1: Never say ‘dog’ to me [...] and I’ll treat you to a dinner!
at dog, n.4
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 4 Feb. 1/1: ‘You’ll get your cocoa-nut cracked one of these days, Pixley, for talking so open-mouthed about counterfeit money’.
at coconut, n.1
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 4 Feb. 1/1: ‘If they’re goin’ to give me their slack, they must expect I’ll be riled’.
at slack, n.1
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 4 Feb. 1/1: ‘Ain’t a snagger and a counterfeiter the same?’.
at snagger, n.
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 2 Feb. 1/2: ‘Ha! ha! ha!’ laughed Marnelli [...] ‘you are a brick, Slocum, a brick’.
at brick, n.
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 2 Feb. 1/2: Brilliant! Splendiferous!
at brilliant, adj.
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 2 Feb. 1/3: D—n my eyes! must I bear this?
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 2 Feb. 1/2: ‘Plank it.’ ‘I’ve nothing to plank [...] his money, if he had any [...] he lost’.
at plank, v.
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 2 Feb. 1/2: ‘Shall I proceed?’ ‘Not with your d—d law [...] If you should, s’death, I won’t answer for the consequences.
at ’sdeath!, excl.
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 2 Feb. 1/2: ‘How does it hit you?’ ‘Square as a brick. Jest the thing’.
at square as a brick (adv.) under square, adj.
[US] Green Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 2 Feb. 1/2: ‘How does it hit you?’ ‘Square as a brick. Jest the thing’.
at thing, the, n.
[US] Green-Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 28 Sept. 4/1: The rider came to grief with a dislocated shoulder, but he got some bone carpenters, and they set his shoulder.
at bone-bender (n.) under bone, n.1
[US] Green-Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT) 31 May 2/3: The victims were [...] silenced by blow after blow, driven deep into the heart and lungs.
at silence, v.
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