Anger can m-ke the most elegant vulgar. Something to "plume" yourself about — Feathering one's neat. A man very much intoxicated was sent to gaol. " Why did you not bail him out ? " inquired a bystander of a friend. " Bail him out, " exclaimed the other; »• why you could not pudqd him out." P A refreshment house at Amsterdam sells " upright English gingerheer " — the Dutch word for " genuine," opregt, having led to a muddling of the English, A Quaker's admonition to a man who was pouring forth a volley of illlanguage to him was — " Have a care my friend; thou mayest run thy face against my fist.'* liTH~I II I I | i — «_,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 87, 11 April 1878, Page 4
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