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Sketches in Prison Camps choose

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[US] C.C. Nott Sketches in Prison Camps 155: Not even [...] the absence of all Yankee cuteness in us, could bring forth the old lady’s stores.
at cute, adj.
[US] C.C. Nott Sketches in Prison Camps 151: Something must be done [...] to raise these fellows up. They are completely down, and if we don’t get them up, why they will pull us down too.
at down, adv.1
[US] C.C. Nott Sketches in Prison Camps 149: A Captain in my regiment came up, and after the usual greetings invited me into his ‘shebang’.
at shebang, n.
[US] C.C. Nott Sketches in Prison Camps 152: Look at the stuff [i.e. food], look at it.
at stuff, n.
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