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A most slovenly man in all things, and in business matters especially, he was the despair, not only of his banker, but of his broker; he was a man who, in professional parlance, "deserved to be robbed." It is improbable that he had any but the haziest ideas, at any particular time, respecting the state of his bank balance and investments.
These are called "light stuff" and "whizz-bangs" now, in army parlance. They throw only an eighteen-pound shell which carries three hundred bullets, but so fast that they chase one another through the air. There has been so much talk about the need of heavy guns, you might think that eighteen-pounders were too small for consideration.
He accordingly obeyed; and, saddened and despairing, was led back a prisoner to the Indian camp. We have heard of a fish, known in the humble fisherman's parlance as the ink-fish, which, when pursued by an enemy, has the power of tinging the water in its immediate vicinity with such a dark color, that its pursuer is completely befogged and gives up the hopeless chase in disgust.
I smiled with quiet satisfaction, for I knew that Burke was as we specify it in police parlance "coming through." After a while he quieted, and at last stood panting in the corner farthest away from me. I pointed to the chair. "Sit down," I said, precisely as if he had n't tried his best to murder me but a minute before. He moved slowly fearfully toward the chair, and sank into it.
In this life an etiquette reigns that has no law of its being save that of vague tradition an etiquette at variance with that of other regions, and through which the female population is resolved into what might be termed, in the parlance of the place, a committee of the whole on "calling." This etiquette rules the wives of important functionaries with a rod of iron.
In Manhattanese parlance, for instance, a 'square' is a 'park, or, even a 'garden' is a 'park. A promenade, on the water, is a 'battery! It is a pity that, in this humour for change, they have not thought of altering the complex and imitative mine of their town.
It embraced something of everything: literary and political history, drama, poetry, fiction; but it never condescended to the exigencies of common parlance. These exigencies did not exist for me in my dreams of seeing Spain which were not really expectations. It was not until half a century later, when my longing became a hope and then a purpose, that I foreboded the need of practicable Spanish.
Known to the world as the inventor of Telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer of the first rank, a lucid lecturer, and a good linguist, a skilful critic, a writer and actor of plays, and a clever sketcher. In popular parlance, Jenkin was a dab at everything. His father, Captain Charles Jenkin, R.N., was the second son of Mr.
It is common parlance among Christian people to speak of what a man "is worth" meaning how much money he has. We speak of a man's "making a living" meaning only how much money he makes, when by making only money he would be killing his living.
In common parlance, "her education was finished," she was regularly and unmistakably "out." Having lost her aunt two years before her return, the duties of hostess devolved upon her, and she dispensed the hospitalities of her home with an easy, though stately elegance, surprising in one so inexperienced. It chanced that Dr.
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