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A month before, he had thought strongly of his child friend Florrie, and, with nothing to do one afternoon, he had written her a letter a jolly, rollicking letter, filled with masculine colloquialisms and friendly endearments, such as he had bestowed upon her at home; and it was the dignity of her reply received that day with the contents of the letter, which was the "something on his mind" that kept him aboard.
And when that's gone I guess you'll make a better port captain than you will this morning. Does that program suit you better than the one I originally outlined?" Matt flushed and hung his head in embarrassment, but answered truthfully: "Yes, sir." "Very well," said Cappy, relapsing into one of his frequent colloquialisms, "go to it, boy. Eat it up."
The corruption of Paris seems to breed verbal distortions rather freely, and the ordinary babble of the city workman is as hard to any Englishman as are the colloquialisms of Burns to the average Cockney. In England our slang has undergone one transformation after another ever since the time of Chaucer.
There was a satisfaction in his largeness, his commonsense, his breeziness. She liked hearing his quaint Bush colloquialisms, when he leaned out of the window at the small stations and exchanged greetings with whomsoever happened to be there officials, navvies, miners, even Chinamen most of whom saluted him with a 'Glad to see you back, sir! ... or a 'Good-day, Boss.
In the year he had spent here his Aberdonian burr had softened somewhat and a number of American colloquialisms had crept into his speech; but for all that he was "the braw canny Scot" as the House Surgeon always termed him and he objected to kisses. So the good-morning greeting was a hearty hand-shake between the two comrade fashion.
Presently, with her alert, rather assertive blue eyes she saw Kitty, and came forward. "Miss Tynan?" she asked, with an encompassing look. Now Kitty was idiomatic in her speech at times, and she occasionally used slang of the best brand, but she avoided those colloquialisms which were of the vocabulary of the uneducated.
"Miss Langdon," he said, with his characteristic smile, "if you had been raised out west, in the country where I come from, you sure would have been bad medicine for anybody who tried your temper a little bit too far." "What do you mean by that?" she asked him, quickly, but without offense. She was smiling now, and Morton's colloquialisms always interested her. "Well, I mean a lot and then some.
Forcibleness of diction, daring brevity, power and variety in rhythm, a remarkable wealth of strong and striking words, simplicity in construction, an almost unique inventive faculty in regard to fluctuations of feeling and presentiment, and therewithal a perfectly pure and overflowing stream of colloquialisms these are the qualities that have to be enumerated, and even then the greatest and most wonderful of all is omitted.
He remained a month at Dresden, reading for an hour a day with a German master, and spending many hours besides in study, recreating himself with German newspapers at the cafe where he dined, and going to the play in the evening to hear colloquialisms. The picture galleries were his daily enjoyment, and he declared the Madonna di San Sisto fully equal to his anticipations.
It seemed to glorify humanity, to make all who breathed it stalwart, and almost pardonable even in wrong-doing. Roscoe was always received respectfully, and even cordially, among the salmon-fishers of Sunburst, as among the mill-men and river-drivers of Viking: not the less so, because he had an excellent faculty for machinery, and could talk to the people in their own colloquialisms.