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It is now a fair contention that, provided a man exercises judgment, and ascends only in weather that is reasonably suitable, there is no more danger in flying an aeroplane than in driving a motor-car. Much depends of course on the dexterity of the pupil, and particularly on his manual dexterity on what is known, colloquially, as "hands."
I took the rudder lines to steer against the sculling of her single scull, and was Adam enough to respond to temptation: 'I should perhaps have been grateful to your charitable construction of it as being metaphysics. She laughed colloquially, to fill a pause. It had not been coquetry: merely the woman unconsciously at play.
But what on earth are you writing?" "Well, you see, he he says I must be educated. I had to promise him to go in for Latin and all that rot. It's a bore, but he says a musician must be educated " She started. And he himself, was he educated? Did he know the ordinary things known, colloquially speaking, by everybody? She did not know. It had never occurred to her before.
Here's a little something for me to do, nothing of any consequence only touch and go nothing to be taken away, no, no, must not lose one of these fine teeth. That most illustrious personage said one day to me, sitting in this very chair 'Swift, said he, 'St. Leger Swift, familiarly, condescendingly, colloquially 'St. Leger Swift, my good fellow, said he
From the railway station at Batavia the comfortless "dos-a-dos," colloquially known as the sado, a vehicle resembling an elementary Irish car, and drawn by a rat-like Timor pony transports us to the fashionable suburb of Weltevreden, away from the steamy port and fever-haunted commercial capital.
"Those generals and staff fellows," he said, "must have a lot of brains after all." And we have come to the conclusion that we will not criticise them any more, for they must know as well as we do, if not still better, how to win the war. We were sitting round the fire in the club, discussing that individual colloquially known as the "knut."
As he shuffles downstairs, Mr. Snagsby, lying in wait for him, puts a half-crown in his hand. "If you ever see me coming past your crossing with my little woman I mean a lady " says Mr. Snagsby with his finger on his nose, "don't allude to it!" For some little time the jurymen hang about the Sol's Arms colloquially.
The term "English," however, is so often used with sole reference to people and things in England as to have become in some measure antithetical to "American;" and when it is found desirable to include the two in a general expression, one often hears in America the term "Anglo-Saxon" colloquially employed for this purpose. A more slovenly use of language can hardly be imagined.
Kirby asked colloquially. "I don't know. Probably the company has a record of all calls. If so, you can find the boy who delivered the message." "I'll get busy right away." Foster hesitated, then volunteered another piece of information. "I don't suppose you know that your uncle sent for me next day and told me to draft a new will for him and get it ready for his signature." "Did you do it?"
What more of us can be said than that, 'they were born, they were happy, they died? Coming next to that part of literature which is more under the control of the imagination, such as what we call Glaubsila, or colloquially 'Glaubs, and you call poetry, the reasons for its decline amongst us are abundantly obvious.
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