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Last Day of the Condemned choose

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[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned 39: He swore he’d make me dance on air, / To please the folks at Tuck-up fair.
at dance on/in (the) air (v.) under dance, v.
[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned 39: Of velvet driz herr gown shall be, / Her bed-gear of the best kemesee.
at driz, n.
[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned 39: He swore he’d make me dance on air, / To please the folks at Tuck-up fair.
at tuck up fair, n.
[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned 38: I fak’d his ticker in my cly, / And fork’d his tin with fingers fly.
at fork, v.1
[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned 38: When the fur-trade nobs harangu’d, / I was order’d to be hang’d.
at fur trade (n.) under fur, n.
[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned 39: Of velvet driz herr gown shall be, / Her bed-gear of the best kemesee.
at kemesa, n.
[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned ’ in 4: Flare up, my nibsome coves, flare up.
at nibsome (adj.) under nib, n.2
[UK] G.W.M. Reynolds (trans.) V. Hugo Last Day of Condemned 38: The nose came prying round about, / To find the cunning cracksman out.
at nose, n.
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