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Their priests even affect to know something of foreign literature. The priest of Benowm assured me that he could read the writings of the Christians: he showed me a number of barbarous characters which he asserted were the Roman alphabet, and he produced another specimen equally unintelligible, which he declared to be the Kallam il Indi, or Persian.
Such words are gov for "governor," bike for "bicycle," flu for "influenza," indi for "indigestion," rec for "recreation," loony for "lunatic," pub for "public house," exam for "examination," maths for "mathematics." All of these words are real slang, and most of them are quite vulgar. There is no sign that any of them will become good English.
It is GRAUSAM, the word in German for CRUEL!" "Let's go on," said Lord Glenarvan, becoming quite excited over his task, as the incomplete words began to fill up and develop their meaning. "INDI, is it India where they have been shipwrecked? And what can this word ONGIT be part of? Ah! I see it is LONGITUDE; and here is the latitude, 37 degrees 11". That is the precise indication at last, then!"
and if I hadn't been led away by birds, and then fallen into a bad service, said the Grinder, 'I hope I might have done better. But it's never too late for a 'Indi suggested Miss Tox. widdle, said the Grinder, 'to mend; and I hope to mend, Miss, with your kind trial; and wishing, Mother, my love to father, and brothers and sisters, and saying of it.
'Le belle braccia al collo indi mi getta, E dolcemente stringe, a baccia in bocca: Tu puoi pensar se allora la saetta Dirizza Amor, se in mezzo al cor mi tocca. She wanted some explanations on the expression 'baccia in bocca', and on the love which made Ricciardetto's arrow so stiff, and I, only too ready to comment on the text, made her touch an arrow as stiff as Ricciardetto's.
"Go on, Major; I am ready to answer you." "Well, then, what do you make of your word AUSTRA?" "What it was at first. It merely means southern countries." "Well, and this syllable, INDI, which was first the root of the INDIANS, and second the root of the word indigenes?" "Well, the third and last time," replied Paganel, "it will be the first syllable of the word INDIGENCE."
Indi la folla si reca in via Galliera soffermandosi dinanzi al palazzo ove e la sede del Corpo d'Armata." The mob was appeased; peace was declared; the day was saved, and several of the Y-men fell on John Calhoun's neck and wept tears of gratitude because he had saved their lives.
The learned geographer, thus called upon, executed his task in the most convincing manner, descanting on the syllables GONIE and INDI, and extracting AUSTRALIA out of AUSTRAL. He pointed out that Captain Grant, on leaving the coast of Peru to return to Europe, might have been carried away with his disabled ship by the southern currents of the Pacific right to the shores of Australia, and his hypotheses were so ingenious and his deductions so subtle that even the matter-of-fact John Mangles, a difficult judge, and most unlikely to be led away by any flights of imagination, was completely satisfied.
We have not the slightest indication of the place, meantime, nor of where the catastrophe happened." "Perhaps the French copy will be more explicit," suggested Lady Helena. "Here it is, then," said Lord Glenarvan, "and that is in a language we all know." The words it contained were these: troi ats tannia gonie austral abor contin pr cruel indi jete ongit et 37 degrees 11" LAT
Cf. note on the Cimbri, G. 37. Silurum. The people of Wales. Colorati vultus. Dark complexion. So with the poets, colorati Indi, Seres, Etrusci, &c. Hispania. Nom. subject of faciunt, with crines, &c. Iberos. They belonged to a different race from the Celtic, or the Teutonic, which seems once to have inhabited Italy and Sicily, as well as parts of Gaul and Spain.
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