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[Aus] Dalby Herald (Qld) 20 Apr. 3/2: There stood [...] hammer in hand, and puffing like a steam engine, a loquacious auctioneer, selling off — oh, snakes and sawdust! it busts my heart to mention it— the ‘Dalby Club’.
at snakes and sawdust!, excl.
[Aus] Dalby Herald (Qld) 3 Dec. 3/1: It is to be hoped nevertheless that the enliving [sic] spectacle of an inebriated ‘Tommy Dodd’ may yet be visible, and rejoiced at in our streets, to the salvation from destruction of the two classes of P’s [i.e. police and publicans] alluded to.
at tommy dodd, n.3
[Aus] Dalby Herald (Qld) 22 Jan. 2/4: [He] inserted his forefinger and thumb into a vest pocket, drew therefrom a silver sixpence, went to thebar and enjoyed a ‘Jimmy Woodser,’ or solitary nobbier, with much gusto.
at Jimmy Woodser, n.
[Aus] Dalby Herald (Qld) 6 Mar. 2/6: He was fined £2, in default seven days imprisonment, and Mr Smart suggested that arrangements be made for him to enter a home. As soon as he was told of the fine, Anderson exclaimed ‘I’ll pay that.’.
at pay, v.
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