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But she was so adorable; her Southern accent was so bewitching; she put so much softness in those amusing idioms "I reckon" and "Seems like," "You others," and the countless little tricks of the Southern vernacular, that Dick passed sleepless hours and delicious days dreaming and sighing and groaning and doing all manner of unreasonable things that we all do when we meet our first Rosas and they light the torch for other feet more favored than our own.
They talked differently from the fellows I had been used to herding with. It was a new vernacular. They were road-kids, and with every word they uttered the lure of The Road laid hold of me more imperiously.
Neither spoke the other's language, and so the governor called his Koriak servant. The same dilemma occurred, as each was ignorant of the other's vernacular. There was an awkward pause until it was discovered that both Koriak and Chukchee could speak English. Business then proceeded without difficulty.
He was otherwise such a stickler for the best diction that he would not have had me use slovenly vernacular even in the dialogue in my stories: my characters must not say they wanted to do so and so, but wished, and the like.
Suppose this difficult vernacular mastered; the would-be student discovers that literary works, even newspapers and ordinary correspondence, are not composed in it, but in another dialect, partly antiquated, partly artificial, differing as widely from the colloquial speech as Latin does from Italian. Make a second hazardous supposition.
I was going to beat it before daylight myself I" he brushed his hand hurriedly across his cheek "I didn't want to go to leave her till I had to." "Well, say" there was wonderment in Jimmie Dale's tones, and his English lapsed into ungrammatical, reassuring vernacular "ain't that queer! Say, I'm no detective. Gee, kid, did you think I was? Say, listen to this!
In the market-places, and near the great gates of the city, where Peking carts and camels from beyond the passes k'ou wai, to use the correct vernacular jostle one another, the dust has become damnable beyond words, and there can be no health possibly in us.
"Better English than the noble lord deigns to employ allow that?" quoth Adrian. "He is very kind," said Lucy. "To all, save to our noble vernacular," added Adrian. "He seems to scent a rival to his dignity there." It may be that Adrian scented a rival to his lymphatic emotions. "We are at our ease here in excellent society," he wrote to Lady Blandish.
He had a rough red-blue face, hard and rugged, like the rocks he rode over so fearlessly, and his eyes were bright hazel, steady and hard. Isbel's vernacular was significant. Speaking of one of our horses he said: "Like a mule he'll be your friend for twenty years to git a chance to kick you." Speaking of another that had to be shod he said: "Shore, he'll step high to-morrow."
He found it convenient, oddly, even for his relation with himself though not unmindful that there might still, as time went on, be others, including a more intimate degree of that one, that would seek, possibly with violence, the larger or the finer issue which was it? of the vernacular.
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