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Suffolk Chronicle; Or Weekly General Advertiser & County Express choose

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[UK] Suffolk Chron. 12 Sept. 2/5: This nobleman, better known as Lord Henry Petty [...] his hope having ben disappointed, add, ‘But Petty ne’er a prodigy will prove; / Ne’er burn the Thames, or make the tide remove’.
at burn the Thames (v.) under burn, v.
[UK] Suffolk Chron. 2 Sept. 1/6: She carried the [£10.00] note to a neighbour, who informed her it was a ‘flash’ one.
at flash, adj.
[UK] Suffolk Chron. 2 Sept. 1/6: [He] asked complainant whgere she lived, which she informed him. He then said to a companion [...] ‘Is there any gilt I wonder?’.
at gilt, n.1
[UK] Suffolk Chron. 2 Sept. 1/6: The prisoner said that [...] she was a ‘rig’lar old muck’ and kept a bad house [and] that her husband was transported.
at muck, n.1
[UK] Suffolk Chron. 5 Oct. 3/2: When near the Barracks, he ‘tissicked’ and spat blood.
at tissick, n.
[UK] Suffolk Chron. 4 Aug. 4/5: ‘You did not see two moons, did you?’ [...] ‘If I had I should think I was drunk’.
at see two moons (v.) under see, v.
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