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When that moment arrives she can make him let go, and lower away all right. Just now Hartley is hanging on quite perceptibly, and if it entertains you to slang him behind his back, I suppose you will slang him, but he won't drop off before you've done with him, Clarice, if I know anything of your methods." Her face flushed and she began to look angry. "Mind you, I don't object to Hartley.
School-boy slang still uses the word in this same sense. Moreover, the first sweater was one who "sweated" himself, not others. But soon when more and more tailoring work was "put out," the home worker, finding he could undertake more than he could execute, employed his family and also outsiders to help him.
So she's taken him where there are no neighbors to hear him scream as as " Molly cast about in her stock of slang for a phrase that was vigorous enough "as she 'puts the boots' to him." It was a shrewd guess; Margaret had decided that she could do more toward "civilizing" him in those few first weeks and in solitude than in years of teaching at odd times.
I am not yet twenty and it seems to me that I have lived thousands of years, and exhausted every sensation. I have seen every thing, learned every thing, experienced every thing; and I am tired of every thing, and satiated and nauseated. You see me looking like a brainless hoyden, I sing, I jest, I talk slang. My gayety surprises everybody. In reality, I am literally tired to death.
Stevenson telling me, at this time, that he was doing some "regular crawlers," for this purist had a boyish habit of slang, and I think it was he who called Julius Caesar "the howlingest cheese who ever lived." Mr. Stevenson had an infinite pleasure in Boisgobey, Montepin, and, of course, Gaboriau. There was nothing of the "cultured person" about him.
"There has been too much to interest, Dr. Sandford." "Yet I see you at your Berlin wools. Pardon me but whenever I see a lady busy with her needle and a bit of canvass, I always think she is hard up for something to think of. Pardon again, Daisy. I know you have no mercy upon slang." "See how mistaken you are, Dr. Sandford." "In that? Not in that."
Convicts and prisoners from the hulks forthwith investigated this contrivance, standing as it did on the monarchical borderland of the old system and the frontier of modern legislation; they instantly gave it the name of l'Abbaye de Monte-a-Regret. The high antiquity of this kind of slang is also noteworthy.
San Francisco, which invents much American slang, must have provided that phrase "this man's town." For that is what San Francisco is a mans town. I dare not appeal to Easterners; but Californiacs, I ask you how could I forbear to say something about "the city"?
Into such slang their souls translated the holiness of his emotions, and they voted him guilty even in awarding him their admiration for his defense. Beattie paused again, then suddenly asked, "Mr. Dyckman, how long have you loved Mrs. Cheever?" "What do you mean by 'loved'?" "It is a familiar word. Answer the question." "I have admired Mrs. Cheever since she was a child.
Dodd drew in at this last slang word; she had heard young gentlemen apply it to their fathers. Edward, she felt sure, would not so sully that sacred relation; still the word was obnoxious for its past offences; and she froze at it: "I have not the honour to know who the personage is you so describe," said she formally.
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