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Wexford Conservative choose

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[Ire] Wexford Conservative 11 Feb. 4/2: Here the young scape-gallows [...] clenched his fist.
at scapegallows, n.
[Ire] Wexford Conservative 31 Jan. 3/2: Two or three individuals [...] kicked up all this ‘splutter’ against the Mayor.
at splutter, n.
[Ire] Wexford Conservative 1 Nov. 1/5: Anyone that speaks of repeal in a tone above a pig’s whisper is no friend of Ireland.
at pig’s whisper, n.
[Ire] Wexford Conservative 31 Oct. 4/1: An eccentric character [...] appeared naked. [...] ‘Thunder,’ said he, ’why I am in a Birth-day Suit’.
at birthday suit, n.
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