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Sketches New and Old vol. 2 (1981) 77: He goes through the camp-meetings and skirmishes for raw converts .at skirmish, v.
Sketches New and Old vol. 2 (1981) 77: He goes through the camp-meetings and skirmishes for raw converts . Sketches New and Old (1926) 163: Our reserve [...] we had [...] kept out of sight and full of chain-lightning, sudden death and scorpion-bile all day [DA].at sudden death, n.1
Sketches New and Old (1926) 170: My refusal of the position at $7,000 a year was not precisely meant to be final, but was intended for what the ungodly term a ‘flyer’—the object being to bring about an increase in the amount.at flyer, n.2
Sketches New and Old 74: Preachin’ was his nateral gait, but he warn’t a man to lay back [...] because there didn’t happen to be nothin’ doin’ in his own especial line.at gait, n.
letter in Sketches New and Old (1887) 74: To Mr. Mark Twain: The within parson, which I have set to poetry [...] was one among the whitest men I ever see.at white, adj.
Sketches New and Old 48: You may write a blistering article on the police—give the Chief Inspector rats .at give someone rats (v.) under rat, n.1
Curious Dreams 83: Hunting the ‘tiger,’ or some kindred game.at buck the tiger (v.) under tiger, n.
Sketches New and Old 248: The first time he opened his mouth and was just going to spread himself his breath took a walk.at take a walk (v.) under walk, n.
in Sketches New and Old 312: It so happened that we stepped into the Revere House, thinking maybe we would chance the salt-house in that big dining-room for a flyer, as the boys say.at flyer, n.2
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