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Vancouver Indep. (WA) 12 Dec. 10/3: I shud ask him to state over a few words just how a man felt and acted when he was set up.at set-up, adj.
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 12 Dec. 10/3: I shud ask him to state over a few words just how a man felt and acted when he was set up. Vancouver Indep. (WA) 8 July 3/2: I’ll be blistered if this affair has n’t got away with me.at blistered, adj.
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 8 July 3/3: The teamster grew nervous, fearing that it was a ‘gone game’ with himl.at gone, adj.1
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 8 July 3/3: The vigor with which the enraged female whacked the boy’s head was something wonderful.at something, adv.
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 8 Sept. 2/5: If she is a little stout they say she is ‘broad in the beam’.at broad in the beam (adj.) under broad, adj.
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 8 Sept. 2/5: They speak of a trim-built sweetheart as ‘clipper-built’.at clipper, n.2
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 14 Dec. 1/1: The little place known as Dogtown, situated about twenty miles from this place.at dogtown, n.1
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 30 Nov. 2/1: Gammon! I’ll come up and draw the badger. Where is it gating?at gammon!, excl.
Vancouver Indep. (WA) 15 Mar. 8/1: Stock jobbers and bucket shops doing a curbstone business in grain, provisions, etc., [...] have become so shamefully dishonorable in their transactions [etc.].at curbstone, adj.
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