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Eve. Mail (London) 17 Feb. 1/4: The left eye is completely black, and the deceased exhibited altogether the appearance of one who has been engaged in a brusing match.at bruising, n.
Eve. Mail (London) 17 Feb. 1/4: The left eye is completely black, and the deceased exhibited altogether the appearance of one who has been engaged in a brusing match. Eve. Mail (London) 9 Apr. 3/3: A chimney sweeper’s boy got into a butter-basket [...] and fell asleep [...] Two thieves passing along shortly afterwards, and conceiving the basket filled with butter or eggs, carried it away [...] to divide the spoil, when lo! instead of rich booty, out sprang the young knight of the brush.at ...the brush (and shovel) under knight of the..., n.
Eve. Mail (London) 6 Mar. 4/3: If the members of the club may not talk politics, we can assure a certain person that they sometimes deal in scan-mag.at scanmag, n.
Eve. Mail (London) 5 Dec. 3/2: A man by the name of Shannon [...] showed them a screw (a skeleton key).at screw, n.1
Eve. Mail (London) 20 Jan. 4/2: It appears that from Hereford, Corbett skipped off to Reading.at skip, v.
Eve. Mail (London) 30 Nov. 4/5: The officer [...] stated that he found on him a purse, containing some new halfpence, which might mistaken for double sovereigns [...] and a parcel of flash notes, which the officers described forming the regular stock in trade of a nags-man [sic], the slang name for the plunderers who are on the watch to make prey of unawary country people.at magsman, n.
Eve. Mail (London) 11 May 3/6: What the boys call ‘bread and scrape’.at scrape, n.
Eve. Mail (London) 20 Nov. 4/4: The simple pair, Jenny Diver and Sukey Tawdry, appeared as [...] Mistress Diana Trapes, Mistress Mary Brazen, Mistress Slammerkin.at slamkin, n.
Eve. Mail (London) 20 Nov. 4/4: The simple pair, Jenny Diver and Sukey Tawdry, appeared as [...] Mistress Diana Trapes, Mistress Mary Brazen, Mistress Slammerkin.at trapes, n.
Eve. Mail (London) 2 Apr. 5/5: It would appear that those at headquarters have contrived to to take care of ‘number one’.at take care of number one, v.
Eve. Mail (London) 13 Apr. 2/3: Two propositions that now divide the [...] scientific versus the political, are the extension of the Museum and the transference of the natural history collection to the rising suburb of Albertopolis south of the Kensington-road.at Albertopolis, n.
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