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But please shake hands again Steve. And, if I may be pardoned the idiom, allow me to assure you that it was some battle!" If it did nothing else, Allison's ponderous raillery served one end. It removed any sentimental awkwardness which might have attached to the episode, and yet the girl rather resented its being so completely reduced to terms of farce-comedy.
Thus this point is easy and clear if only the language is understood, that to hallow is the same as in our idiom to praise, magnify, and honor both in word and deed. Here, now, learn how great need there is of such prayer.
This is in accordance with the ordinary custom of Hebrew writers in those days, and with the idiom of their language, by which a single visible or tangible object was employed as the representative or expression of a general idea as, for example, the sword is used as the emblem of magisterial authority, and the sun and the rain, which are spoken of as being sent with their genial and fertilizing power upon the evil and the good, denote not specially and exclusively those agencies, but all the beneficent influences of nature which they are employed to represent.
His language was producing itself with as much delicacy of selection as if it came out of a book and yet preserving the savour of quaint, outlandish idiom which his listeners clearly liked.
The work and object which he set himself was to compose and translate philosophical dialogues and to render logical and physical terms into the Roman idiom.
Foolishly translating an Italian idiom, I asked her, with an air of deep interest, whether she had well 'decharge'? "Sir, what a question! You are unbearable." I repeated my question; she broke out angrily again. "Never utter that dreadful word." "You are wrong in getting angry; it is the proper word." "A very dirty word, sir, but enough about it. Will you have some breakfast?" "No, I thank you.
Those understanding the Indian tongue have frequently assured me that the Indian, when interpreting, reproduces with minuteness, if he be granted, of course, a certain latitude for differences of idiom, the speaker's thought and expressions.
For weeks at a time this prince was known to be "steady," but every month or so he disappeared, and his subjects said he was "lying off." To adopt an American idiom, he "felt like brandy and water"; he also "felt like" wearing no clothes, and generally rejecting his new conceptions of duty and decency.
It is fortunate that the translation of the Bible has been effected before the language became adulterated with half-uttered foreign words, and while those who have heard the eloquence of the native assemblies are still living; for the young, who are brought up in our schools, know less of the language than the missionaries; and Europeans born in the country, while possessed of the idiom perfectly, if not otherwise educated, can not be referred to for explanation of any uncommon word.
There was a brief silence when he had finished, until one of the Englishmen said: "I presume things of that kind seldom happen now?" "I don't know," said Seaforth, who spoke in the Western idiom. "We have still a few of the good old-fashioned villains right here in this country, and that reminds me of a thing which happened to a man I know.
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