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The Oedipus is as clearly divided into acts as is Hamlet or Hedda Gabler. In modern parlance, we should probably call it a play in five acts and an epilogue.
This platform is, in the common parlance of the crew, frequently designated the "cradle," and it merits the appellation, for in a vessel at sea and under a breeze it is generally "rocked" about, either in long sweeps from side to side, or backward and forward from stem to stern, according to the ship's motion.
There are wide straight streets overarched with spreading elms and maples, and on either side stand the houses, with little green lawns in front, called in rustic parlance "door-yards."
Before I say anything of my parentage, I will first give the reader some idea of the locus in quo, and a more precise notion of the spot on which I happened first to see the light. A "neck," in West Chester and Long Island parlance, means something that might be better termed a "head and shoulders," if mere shape and dimensions are kept in view.
Especially is this necessary in relation to that attribute which, in common parlance, arrogates to itself the name that covers the vast sweep of all moral obligation and calls itself emphatically "morality." "Language," Dr.
And where does he get them?" Mr. Birnes closed his teeth grimly and his eyes snapped. Now he knew why Mr. Wynne had taken that useless cab ride up Fifth Avenue. It was to enable him to get rid of the diamonds! There was an accomplice in detective parlance the second person is always an accomplice in that closed cab! It had all been prearranged; Mr.
Pete's groan was followed by a violent hiccuping on the part of Bloody Mike for, to confess the truth, that convivial gentleman had imbibed so freely that he was, in vulgar parlance, most essentially drunk. 'Stop that infernal noise, and follow me into the room, whispered Pete, who, having confined himself to wine instead of brandy, was comparatively sober.
She had given up her dolls, but she still made clothes for them out of scraps from Harriet's sewing-room. In the parlance of the Street, Harriet "sewed" and sewed well. She had taken Anna into business with her, but the burden of the partnership had always been on Harriet. To give her credit, she had not complained.
For they think themselves much before you in wit, and under no obligation, but rather conferring a favour, by doing the thing that you do. Hence, if I cared for influence which means, for the most part, making people do one's will, without knowing it my first step toward it would be to be called, in common parlance, 'slow but sure.
She's got toler'ble good men to handle her." There was a pause. The soft twilight was battening down the hatches of the day, to drop into the parlance of the locality. "Well, I do suppose old Pember warn't an easy shipmate, blow or no blow," observed Captain Smart. He was a small, keen-eyed, quickly moving old man, seasoned with salt. "I reckon he warn't.
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