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He appreciated the fact that the other was, to use an American colloquialism, "quick on the uptake." "Your immediate duty is clear." "You mean I should search the wood again?" said Queensmead, with the same quick comprehension as before. "Very well. Will you come with me?"
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In these conferences we were concerned with basic principles principles which involve the security and the welfare and the standard of living or human beings in countries large and small. To use an American and somewhat ungrammatical colloquialism, I may say that I "got along fine" with Marshal Stalin. He is a man who combines a tremendous, relentless determination with a stalwart good humor.
In the very rear of the procession you may see the company commander and three subalterns. They give no orders, and exact no attention. To employ a colloquialism, this is not their funeral. Just behind the gun-carriage stalks a solitary figure in civilian clothes the unmistakable "blacks" of an Elder of the Kirk.
For these I exchanged the name and social position of a Chylde, and my own, I trust, not unattractive person. I deemed that I gave myself away dirt-cheap, excuse again the colloquialism; the transaction seems to require such a phrase, for there is no doubt that Mr. Mellasys was greatly objectionable.
It is this "cynicism" of his which makes it possible for him to introduce into his poetry it is of his poetry that I wish to speak a certain colloquial salt, pungent and acrid, and with the smell of the tomb about it. It is colloquialism; but it is such colloquialism as ghosts or vampires would use. Poe remains that has been already said, has it not? absolutely cold while he produces his effects.
Palliser's arguments and points of aspect were less unknown to T. Tembarom than his own were to Palliser. He had seen something very like them before, though they had developed in different surroundings and had been differently expressed. The colloquialism "You're not doing that for your health" can be made to cover much ground in the way of the stripping bare of motives for action.
"Her last words to Robin were to warn her not to come to her for refuge 'if she got herself into a mess. She is in what Mrs. Gareth-Lawless would call 'a mess." "It is what a good many people would call it," the Duchess said. "And she does not even know that her tragedy would express itself in a mere vulgar colloquialism with a modern snigger in it.
Ann was startled. "What do you mean?" "The word 'all," said Jimmy, "is slang for 'everything. You see in me a confidant. In a word, I am hep." "You know ?" "Everything. A colloquialism," explained Jimmy, "for 'all. About Ogden, you know. The scheme. The plot. The enterprise." Ann found nothing to say. "I am thoroughly in favour of the plan.
But I doubt if the boys would have any. They don't seem to have a nerve in their bodies, though goodness knows they're 'nervy' enough at other times. Pardon the colloquialism," she murmured as she sank back. It was the morning after Freda's return, and the night had been rather a troubled one.
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