Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 psl. |
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... term applied to such of his customers as have developed a cheery , rubicund complexion , especially on the end of the nose . Admiral of the Red , White , and Blue is a term similarly applied to beadles , hall - porters , and other ...
... term applied to such of his customers as have developed a cheery , rubicund complexion , especially on the end of the nose . Admiral of the Red , White , and Blue is a term similarly applied to beadles , hall - porters , and other ...
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... term applied to habitual drunk- ards . The sobriquet is said to have taken its rise in the following manner . A negro employed on a sugar - plantation on the East Coast , Demerara , applied for a Saturday holiday . His manager , knowing ...
... term applied to habitual drunk- ards . The sobriquet is said to have taken its rise in the following manner . A negro employed on a sugar - plantation on the East Coast , Demerara , applied for a Saturday holiday . His manager , knowing ...
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... term applied in the seventeenth century to the unruly " bloods " of the day whose mad frolics nightly made the streets a terror to sedate and peaceable citizens . Get thee another nose that will be pulled Off by the angry boys for thy ...
... term applied in the seventeenth century to the unruly " bloods " of the day whose mad frolics nightly made the streets a terror to sedate and peaceable citizens . Get thee another nose that will be pulled Off by the angry boys for thy ...
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... term may perpetuate the memory of a Wiltshire nobleman , Mervin , Lord Audley , also Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland , who was hanged in 1631 for robbery . A case occurred recently at the Devizes police court , when a travelling actor ...
... term may perpetuate the memory of a Wiltshire nobleman , Mervin , Lord Audley , also Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland , who was hanged in 1631 for robbery . A case occurred recently at the Devizes police court , when a travelling actor ...
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... term for a present of money , a gratuity , a pour- boire . There are not many words , even among those of foreign extraction , of which the orthog- raphy offers no less than thirteen alternatives . We have , however , the authority of ...
... term for a present of money , a gratuity , a pour- boire . There are not many words , even among those of foreign extraction , of which the orthog- raphy offers no less than thirteen alternatives . We have , however , the authority of ...
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