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Hillsdale Standard choose

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[US] Hillsdale Standard (MI) 10 Oct. 1/2: [W]hen I went to bed, I [got] down on my benders and ask for snows.
at bender, n.1
[US] Hillsdale Standard (MI) 10 Oct. 1/4: She was a darned good old thing, but not as clean as her mother.
at darned, adv.
[US] Hillsdale Standard (MI) 10 Oct. 1/4: If any one of the boys didn’t sell his papers, we’d go snucks with him, and each take one.
at go snucks (v.) under snucks, n.
[US] Hillsdale Standard (MI) 10 Oct. 1/2: So she ups with her apron and wipes her eyes.
at up, v.
[US] Hillsdale Standard (MI) 26 Aug. 1/6: His two companions entered an adjoining rummery and called for whiskey skins.
at rummery, n.
[US] Hillsdale Standard (MI) 17 Nov. 1/5: ‘Yes — I’ve shot at soldiers [...] I’ve threatened people’ [...] These were his last words. The drop fell [...] The first hanging, by order of the military authorities, of a bushwhacker in Missouri.
at bushwhacker, n.1
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