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Oakfield (1854) 42: ‘And if you pass,’ say my dear good-natured friends, ‘you may get an appointment.’ ‘Bus!’ (you see my Hindostanee knowledge already carries me the length of that emphatic monosyllable).at bus!, excl.
Oakfield (1854) 42: ‘And if you pass,’ say my dear good-natured friends, ‘you may get an appointment.’ ‘Bus!’ (you see my Hindostanee knowledge already carries me the length of that emphatic monosyllable).![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
Oakfield (1855) 58: Some officer, stopping, as he passed by returning from his morning ride ‘just to have a dekh at the steamer’ .at deck, n.2
Oakfield II 292: I [...] am now returning to Ferozepore, feeling more solitary than I have ever done since the days of my griffinage.at griffinage (n.) under griffin, n.1
Oakfield II 127: Old Middleton had a very good idea of making himself comfortable; —the dinner was good, and the iced simkin, Sir, delicious .at simkin, n.2
Oakfield I 66: ‘Were you ever in the Lakes?’ ‘No, I’m a Suffolk walla. Do you know Yoxton’ .at wallah, n.
Oakfield I 38: There were three more cadets on the same steamer, going up to that great griff depôt, Oudapoor, as uninteresting as boys of seventeen, fresh from a private school, generally are.at griffin, n.1
Oakfield I 59: [H]e was still roughly civil; sometimes indeed grew quite cordial while comparing, with infinite complacency, his own knowingness with his chum’s griffishness.at griffishness (n.) under griffin, n.1
Oakfield I 51: ‘Why, you don’t mean to say that he’d allow you to pay his house rent?’ said Oakfield, with very griffish surprise.at griffish (adj.) under griffin, n.1
Oakfield I 59: To stick a brother officer, not only with a horse, but with any thing, – to clear out a griff at cards or billiards, – to get credit to the largest possible amount from the greatest possible number of tradesmen, without the slightest intention of any payment [...] – to get money from relations at home under false pretences, – to sponge upon a friend who, perhaps, could ill afford it; [...] these were the signs of a state from which all griffinism (which comprises the seven deadly sins) had been eradicated.at griffinism (n.) under griffin, n.1
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