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  • "Have a peppermint lozenger," suggested Mr. Keeler, with sudden enthusiasm.

    The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • She kept a-arskin 'questions, and everything she arsked I arnswered of her back dreadful moderate, and every time I arnswered of her back she'd give a little larff, endin' up on 'sol la ce do,' sorter highsteriky; so't I was kind o 'feelin' areound in my pocket t 'find her a narvine lozenger.

    Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • Candy had been passed around, and just before the hymn was given out in which the soprano was to sing a solo, "Nearer My God to Thee," the wicked wretch gave her the loaded lozenger.

    Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878

  • Candy had been passed around, and just before the hymn was given out in which the soprano was to sing a solo, "Nearer My God to Thee," the wicked wretch gave her the loaded lozenger.

    Peck's Compendium of Fun 1878

  • On Christmas he took his lozenger to church and concluded to get even with the soprano if he died for it.

    Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878

  • It is customary in all first-class choirs for the male singers to furnish candy for the lady singers, and the other day the tenor went to a candy factory and had a peppermint lozenger made with about half a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper in the centre of it.

    Peck's Compendium of Fun 1878

  • On Christmas he took his lozenger to church and concluded to get even with the soprano if he died for it.

    Peck's Compendium of Fun 1878

  • There's a Italian got a bear that performs in the street, and I am going to find where he is showing, and feed the bear a cayenne pepper lozenger, and see him clean out the Pollack settlement.

    Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 Gean Smith 1878

  • It is customary in all first-class choirs for the male singers to furnish candy for the lady singers, and the other day the tenor went to a candy factory and had a peppermint lozenger made with about half a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper in the centre of it.

    Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878

  • I choked up so I couldn't speak when she handed me the nickel and when she looked up at me and smiled just like she used to, and said I was getting to be almost a man since we went to school at the old school house, and put her handkerchief to her eyes, by gosh, my eyes got so full I couldn't tell whether is was a nickel or a lozenger she gave me.

    The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 1878

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