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Updated: April 30, 2025
The departments of Statutory Law and Records even yet retain certain characteristics of a period when judicial officers and clerks represented to the public mind the embodiment of what was known as "Red Tape," a true colloquialism descriptive of the attitude of official conservatism.
"Courage, soldier," she said in the colloquialism her father often used, and she smiled at Crozier a great-hearted, helpful smile. "You are a brick of bricks, Kitty Tynan," he whispered, and smiled. "Here comes the Young Doctor," said Mrs. Tynan as the door opened unceremoniously. "Well, I have to make an excursion," Crozier said, "and I mayn't come back. If I don't, au revoir, Kitty."
The real case we British have against our lawyers, if I may adopt an expressive colloquialism, is not that they are lawyers, but that they are such infernal lawyers. They trail into modern life most of the faults of a mediaeval guild. They seem to have no sense of the State they could develop, no sense of the future they might control.
For them was adopted, in naval colloquialism, the inelegant but suggestive term "jackass" lieutenants.
He must like to figure, to use a colloquialism, and his fondness for it must be genuine, almost an absorption. It must reveal itself to him at an early age, too, as early as his grammar-school days, for then it will be known as genuinely a part of him, and the outcropping of seeds correctly sown by his ancestors.
"The witness is a patient, your Honor, whom I examined some weeks ago and found suffering from valvular disease of the heart. He is dead." The Chinese boy to whom the colloquialism was addressed answered literally, after his habit: "Allee same Li Tee; me no changee. Me no ollee China boy." "I don't suppose there's another imp like you in all Trinidad County.
You see, the Patriotic Party, including even those Pontificals whose private practice most discouraged all that sort of thing, began at once to urge propagation. But their propaganda was, as one may say, brain-spun; and at once bumped up pardon the colloquialism against the economic situation. The existing babies, it is true, were saved; the trouble was rather that the babies began not to exist.
I could show you the place in daylight, and you would say it was one of the worst spots on the river. Light and Darkness! aptest of metaphors! And see how the symbolism permeates our language, from the loftiest poetry to the most trifling colloquialism. "There is no darkness but ignorance," says the pleasantest of stage fools; "in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog."
She had expressed her surprise in the of an interrogation, emphasizing the "he," a colloquialism of the Southwest. Slim, however, had chosen to ignore the manner of speech, and with a grin answered: "Ye-es, that's why they buried him." Polly laughed in spite of herself. "What did he die of?" she asked. As Slim was about to take a drink at the olla, he failed to hear her. "Eh?" he grunted.
Winston knew the man, and was about to urge the horse forward, but in place of it drew bridle, and laughed with a feeling that was wholly new to him as he remembered that his neighbors now and then bantered him about his English, and that Courthorne only used the Western colloquialism when it suited him. "Sergeant Stimson is an enterprising officer, but there are as keen men as he is," he said.
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