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Page 487 - With complete Index. Handbook of Games. By various Amateurs and Professors. Comprising treatises on all the principal Games of chance, skill, and manual dexterity.
Page 739 - A pickadil is that round hem, or the several divisions set together, about the skirt of a garment, or other thing. Also a kind of stiff collar, made in fashion of a band.
Page 486 - Portrait. This Translation (though published at so low a price) is more complete than any other. The Notes are placed beneath the text.
Page 760 - If the conjurer be but well paid, he'll take pains upon the ghost, and lay him, look ye, in the Red Sea and then. he's laid for ever.
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Page 968 - Character, but the two chief persons are most commonly a Swearing, Drinking, W'horing, Ruffian for a Lover, and an impudent ill-bred tomrig for a Mistress...
Page 691 - ... bank, where I have lain ever since; and you have done me great injury to bring me from thence: let me be carried thither again by Gluttony and Lechery.
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