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Windsor & Eton Exp. 15 Aug. 3/3: Formerly the barber’s knock was as well known and as punctual as the postman’s.at barber’s knock (n.) under barber, n.1
Windsor & Eton Exp. 15 Aug. 3/3: Formerly the barber’s knock was as well known and as punctual as the postman’s. Windsor & Eton Exp. 14 Dec. 4/5: One of the whippers-in was compelled to leave his horse behind and ride Shank’s mare.at shanks’s pony, n.
Windsor & Eton Exp. 9 Jan. 1/5: is father gave him a basket of sprats to sell, with instructions not to dispose of [them] under sixpence, as they were ‘regular shiners’.at shiner, n.1
Windsor & Eton Exp. 7 Feb. 3/2: He thought how he’d been sold himself, and wiped away a tear.at sold, adj.
Windsor & Eton Exp. 11 Dec. 3/3: Sam Slick’s rather overdone Jonathanian slang.at Jonathanian (adj.) under Jonathan, n.
Windsor & Eton Exp. 28 May 1/6: It was evident from his ‘county crop’ that he had lately been inmate of of of His Majesty’s gaols.at county crop (n.) under county, adj.
Windsor & Eton Exp. 19 July 1/3: ‘Cheer up, Sam’ (Negro Melody).at sam, n.
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