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[US] Helena Wkly Herald (MT) 15 May 7/4: The Alta Daily Independent [...] is a spicy sheet, although not bigger thn a minute. It promises to grow, however.
at no bigger than a minute (adj.) under big, adj.
[US] Helena Wkly Herald (MT) 16 July 4/5: The mayor [is] always ready to bloviate whenever he can get an audience.
at bloviate, v.
[US] Helena Wkly Herald (MT) 24 July 7/2: It was worse than boy’s play for the Sheriff to attempt to keep such a villain as Con Murphy [...] with known sympathizers on the outside, in such a play-house as the city jail.
at outside, n.
[US] Helena Wkly Herald (MT) 24 July 7/2: It was worse than boy’s play for the Sheriff to attempt to keep such a villain as Con Murphy [...] with known sympathizers on the outside, in such a play-house as the city jail.
at playhouse, n.
[US] Helena Wkly Herald (MT) 15 May 1/5: Giantesses have the habit of falling love with a little shrimp of a man.
at shrimp, n.
[US] Helena Herald (MT) 22 Dec. 1/4: Shakespeare [...] was the son of a buckwheater.
at buckwheat, n.
[US] Helena Wkly Herald (MT) 24 Jan. 1/1: The one has a divine mustache, / The other money bags; / I hesiatte ’twixt love and cash, / His giblets or his jags.
at his giblets (n.) under giblets, n.
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