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[Ire] Pilot (Dublin) 27 Aug. 2/4: The driver of the Penzance coach took his Lordship for a brother of the whip, and politely invoted him to partake of a pot of heavy wet.
at brother (of the) whip (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[Ire] Pilot (Dublin) 12 Dec. 3/1: His facetious brother of the buskin [...] had the misfortune, it being foggy, to fall into a drain.
at brother (of the) buskin (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[Ire] Pilot (Dublin) 6 Jan. 3/2: One Whig less — yes, even one roaring ruffian less, against liberty and Ireland.
at roaring, adj.
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