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Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism. Engagements for one dance should not be made while the present dance is yet in progress. Never attempt to take a place in a dance which has been previously engaged. Withdraw from a private ball-room as quietly as possible, so that your departure may not be observed by others, and cause the party to break up.
So he gazed in blank wonder at the suddenness of the apparition, more than half inclined to satisfy his curiosity by inquiring of the stranger how the dickens he had got there. A moment's reflection, however, sufficed to save the ingenuous young man from the pitfall of so serious a social solecism. It would be fatal to accost him. That makes acquaintanceship a dangerous luxury.
I remember when I pointed out to a Boston girl that an American actor in a piece before us, representing high life in London, was committing a gross solecism in moistening his pencil in his mouth before adding his address to his visiting card, she trumped my criticism at once by the information that a distinguished English journalist, with a handle to his name, who recently made a successful lecturing tour in the United States, openly and deliberately moistened his thumb in the same ingenuous fashion to aid him in turning over the leaves of his manuscript.
"Probably she didn't say Barkley," observed Francesca cuttingly; "she would have been sure to commit that sort of solecism." "Why, don't you say Barkley in the States?" "Certainly not; we never call them the States, and with us c-l-e-r-k spells clerk, and B-e-r-k Berk." "How very odd!" remarked Mr. Anstruther.
This was a good deal the effect of his maiden speech on the transfer of Genoa, to which Lord Castlereagh did not deign an answer, and which another Honourable Member called "a finical speech." It was a most able, candid, closely argued, and philosophical exposure of that unprincipled transaction; but for this very reason it was a solecism in the place where it was delivered.
"But if you settled down in one place you would soon become familiar with the people's needs; you would only have to preach two sermons a week, and you could do your own pastoral duty." "True; but then I would not be any longer a Methodist preacher. A Methodist pastor is a solecism; Methodism is a moving evangelism. When it settles down for a life pastorate it will need a new name." "However, Mr.
Macready, or any of those that are 'cried out upon in the top of the compass' to obtrude themselves voluntarily or ostentatiously upon our notice, when they are out of character, is a solecism in theatricals.
Fish and soup are generally served up alone, before any of the other dishes appear, and with no vegetable but potatoes; it being considered a solecism in good taste to accompany them with any of the other productions of the garden except a little horseradish, parsley, &c. as garnishing. In England, and at the most fashionable tables in America, bread only is eaten with fish.
'It is not marked here, and if it had been mentioned in the papers, I should not have failed to record it. 'And how old is she? 'The author of this peerage would never be guilty of the solecism of recording a lady's age, said Mr.
But would not the Romans have done better if, after the expulsion of Tarquin, they had vested the regal power in a limited monarch, instead of placing it in two annual elective magistrates with the title of consuls? This was a great deviation from your plan of government, and, I think, an unwise one. For a divided royalty is a solecism an absurdity in politics.
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