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Strangers and Pilgrims choose

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[UK] M.E. Braddon Strangers and Pilgrims II 269: I’m not a dab – I mean I’m a poor hand at penmanship.
at dab, n.1
[UK] M.E. Braddon Strangers and Pilgrims II 143: There was no rush of those lofty personages whom Mrs. Cinqmars had spoken of as ‘heavy swells’.
at heavy swell, n.
[UK] M.E. Braddon Strangers and Pilgrims I 280: There are the men who go off their nuts by the time they’re worth a million or so, and cut their throats for fear of dying in a workhouse .
at off one’s nut (adj.) under nut, n.1
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