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[Ire] Waterford Mail 10 June 4/5: Stuart’s a stranger —just come to this land ‘From the back of God Speed’.
at back of God speed under back, adv.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 13 Dec. 4/1: I have also the law of nature, which forbids taking from me [...] the earnings of my four bones, which are the only property a man brings into the world.
at four bones (n.) under bone, n.1
[Ire] Waterford Mail 2 Aug. 4/4: The one boot-eater who pertinaceously held out, is praised in proportion to the abuse heaped upon his fellows.
at boot-eater (n.) under boot, n.2
[Ire] Waterford Mail 13 Mar. 4/5: The box was opened and the skeleton of a child found in it. This was confirmation [...] that the old woman was not only a ‘sack ’em up’ herself, but the mother [...] of a family of ressurectionists.
at sack ’em up (man) (n.) under sack, v.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 13 July 3/4: One of them there sort of chaps wot as wends that ’ere sort of grub called bow-wow mutton —I mean them ’ere coveys called piemen.
at bow-wow mutton (n.) under bow-wow, n.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 8 July 2/5: I shall not forget make the Spanish claim and prevent Tom [i.e. a servant] from walking Spanish.
at walk Spanish (v.) under walk, v.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 4 Aug. 2/1: Our transatlantic brother Jonathan is growing restless. He is [...] ‘getting blue mouldy for want of a beating’.
at blue mouldy (adj.) under mouldy, adj.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 29 Nov. 3/6: Some of the the citizens of Carrick were against its introduction; others were for it [...] ‘Blur an’ ages, why not, your worship’.
at tare an’ ages!, excl.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 13 May 3/4: Either Dr Gray or Mr Scully must therefore have lied wilfully and ‘most damnably’.
at damnably, adv.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 3 Sept. 4/2: Kangaroo-Land — Small Tormentors. The sufferings of ‘new hands,’ from this class of tormentors [...] are soon mitigated by habit, and in little while they learn to tolerate [...] their ‘inevitable presence’.
at Kangarooland (n.) under kangaroo, n.1
[Ire] Waterford Mail 15 Oct. 3/2: A Model Hero of the Pave — An itinerant pedlar named Daly [...] has been sent for trial [etc.].
at pave, n.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 15 Oct. 3/2: A Model Hero of the Pave — An itinerant pedlar named Daly [...] has been sent for trial [...] for using threatening and violent language [...] He got well under the ‘rosy’.
at rosy, the, n.
[Ire] Waterford Mail 14 Jan. 4/3: Chairman— Have you any family? Ned— Wisha, no, but my own four bones.
at four bones (n.) under bone, n.1
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