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Penny Illustrated Paper choose

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[UK] Penny Illus. Paper 15 Dec. 14/1: Choice Bits. Songs for the Fireside.
at choice, adj.
[UK] Penny Illus. Paper 18 May 5/2: [T]hey drank my health. This is a custom in the cavalry, and any man who neglected to wet his stripes would be called ‘snide’.
at wet, v.
[UK] Penny Illus. Paper 11 Sept. 9/1: ‘[W]et through every day, not stitch of dry kit, and, to put the tin hat on the lot, my ’orse is dead lame, and I’m five miles — five bloomin’, stiffening miles! — from camp’.
at put the tin hat on (v.) under tin hat, n.1
[UK] Penny Illus. Paper 20 Jan. 3/4: Of a mean person it was said: ‘He would skin a louse’.
at skin a louse (v.) under skin, v.1
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