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Every Night Book 52: If the amateur of heavy wet should call upon some luckless wight in Abbott’s Priory [...] we recommend him [...] to take beer at the Brace.at Abbott’s Priory, n.
Every Night Book 52: If the amateur of heavy wet should call upon some luckless wight in Abbott’s Priory [...] we recommend him [...] to take beer at the Brace. Every Night Book 47: A whey-faced half-and-half exquisite [...] inquired of the steward, in an affected drawl, for his valet. The bone-licker was sent to him. ‘Oh, Thomas,’ lisped the creature, ’ you’re there, are you’.at half-and-half, adj.
Every Night Book 84: A ‘bellyful,’ is a tremendous drubbing; and a ‘glutton,’ one who can take, it without flinching.at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
Every Night Book 163: It is the resort of young bloods on the look out for a spree, and ‘birds of paradise,’ in gaudy plumes, seeking to lure the estrays of the night to their nests.at bird, n.1
Every Night Book 38: Yea! by the blue bird’s eye of Belcher, these are the characters of the pugilistic young poet.at bird’s eye, n.
Every Night Book 59: Some time after our adventure with this black diamond, who seemed to have a taste for the pains of Pandemonium [etc.].at black diamond (n.) under black, adj.
Every Night Book 47: A whey-faced half-and-half exquisite [...] inquired of the steward, in an affected drawl, for his valet. The bone-licker was sent to him. ‘Oh, Thomas,’ lisped the creature, ’ you’re there, are you’.at bone-licker (n.) under bone, n.1
Every Night Book 34: A small assortment of tizzies and browns.at brown, n.
Every Night Book 74: Shakespearian fops and folls [...] the Cacfogos of the old comedia, the Cantons of modern dramatists.at cacafuego, n.
Every Night Book 83: Their [i.e. prize-fighters’] language he would find mighty mysterious [...] drawing blood, is in Eganism, ‘tapping the claret’.at tap someone’s claret (v.) under claret, n.
Every Night Book 73: One drop of dunghill blood in his heart will curdle the whole current with cold fear.at dunghill, n.1
Every Night Book 75: Rayner, who makes a very passable countryman [...] Meadows for the minor hawbucks.at hawbuck, n.
Every Night Book 75: Egerton, who plays the white handkerchief heavy business.at heavy, adj.
Every Night Book 38: Hear us, great James — thou poetry of mutton! / Delicious profile of the beast that bleats— / Rich excellence of culinary treats .at james, n.
Every Night Book 34: ‘Keep it up’ is very frequently in the mouths of many of the young blades who go to Bartelmy.at keep it up (v.) under keep, v.
Every Night Book 82: Poor Hen Pearce [...] would have challenged and licked the ex-champion very handsomely.at lick, v.1
Every Night Book 84: When one of the fancy dies, the survivors say, that he has [...] ‘mizzled’ — ‘morrised’ or ‘muffed it’!at mizzle, v.
Every Night Book 84: When one of the fancy dies, the survivors say, that he has [...] ‘mizzled’ — ‘morrised’ or ‘muffed it’!at morris, v.
Every Night Book 84: When one of the fancy dies, the survivors say, that he has [...] ‘mizzled’ — ‘morrised’ or ‘muffed it’!at muff it (v.) under muff, v.1
Every Night Book 37: Jack Scroggins — now a mere mountebank with the muffles.at muffler, n.
Every Night Book 181: ‘Now,’ says he, collaring my nabs, ’I’ve got you’.at my nabs (n.) under nabs, n.
Every Night Book xi: No one, if he attends to us, will ever start a lark, be fleeced by a shearer, or get caged by a Charley.at shearer, n.
Every Night Book 84: When one of the fancy dies, the survivors say, that he has ‘stepped below,’— ‘took it in snuff and toddled’ [etc.].at snuff, v.2
Every Night Book xii: As Napoleon said to Barry O’Meara [...] so do we to ye from our snuggery.at snug, n.
Every Night Book 37: That broad-framed, washy-faced, squeeny-eyed, poor-looking devil.at squint-eye (n.) under squint, n.
Every Night Book 83: Their [i.e. prize-fighters’] language he would find mighty mysterious [...] To ‘tickle his sneezer,’ is breaking his nose.at tickler, n.
Every Night Book 84: Their [i.e. prize-fighters’] language he would find mighty mysterious [...] to ‘tip him a tie-up,’ is to give him a blow that bends him neck to heels.at tie-up, n.1
Every Night Book 83: Were a novice to pop in among them, he would scarcely suspect he was among ‘The tip-top lads of the bruising band’.at tip-top, adj.
Every Night Book 75: The walking gentlemen, to run away with rich wards.at walking gentleman (n.) under walking, adj.
Every Night Book 25: To see some score or so of human animals struggling to float upon a few feet of imprisoned water, is a mighty contemptible spectacle to any but a cockney gherkin [...] No one who is not as green as a cucumber will attempt to learn to swim by corks.at wally, n.2
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