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• every foot anon

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• every now and then

  Repeatedly, at intervals. This phrase is common with us, and is used also in England. [The young wo...

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• every inch of that!

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• every rope an-end

  The order to coil down the running rigging, or braces and bowlines, after tacking, or other evolutio...

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• every once in a while

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• every man to his station

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• england expects every man will do his duty

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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