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Updated: July 22, 2025
"What's the matter? Why are you damaging the ship's literature?" she asked gaily. "No, I can't stand that!" exclaimed Irene. "It's too imbecile. It really is what our slangy friend calls 'rot, and very dry rot. Have you read the thing?" Mrs. Borisoff looked at the title, and answered with a headshake. "Imagine!
"All right then she's worth it! By George, she's got the makings of something splendid in her. I tell you she's had as much to do as any of us with saving the life of that woman upstairs. Courage? tenderness? 'not arf." The slangy term shewed the speaker's desire to get rid of his own feelings.
Dulcie answered her, her sharp slangy syllables falling incisively after Felicia's low drawl. "I don't know that it's any of your business but they amount to about two hundred dollars. I know what you're thinking, that with the furniture we could open a rooming house. I've been thinking that myself while Miss Day was gone.
Her voice was very sweet, her unusually finished pronunciation and enunciation giving a curious effect to her slangy speech. She wore her clothes jauntily, carried herself with charming grace, and her great dimples made her frank smile irresistible. "Do you know, I've been simply crazy all the way to come and speak to you," she confessed as soon as they were outside.
The warmth we have in hand is what the old lady called "Fahrenheat," and, from a thermometric point of view, Beachdale, if I may be a trifle slangy, as I sometimes am, has heat to burn. There are mitigations of this heat, it is true, but they generally come along in winter.
"You picked up that expression from Tom Gallup." "That's the slangy boy yes," admitted the old ranchman, with a broad smile. "But some of his slang just hits things off right. Some of those girls think you're 'country, I know. We'll show them!" Frances sighed. She knew it meant that she must dress the part of a barbarian princess to please her father. But she made no objection.
That astute young person had much to say, in her own slangy phraseology, concerning certain utterances of the Dutch extremists, openly derogatory to the English, and seemingly opposed to any spirit of racial conciliation. "Why don't you try and teach your people to play the game?" she asked him, with a fine scorn.
The fall had been an unusually hard one, and it had not helped any to be dragged at full speed over the bumpy ground. Maisie Winters ran forward and slipped an arm around his waist to support him. "You dandy man! I never did see one so game as you, Steve." The cowpuncher grinned. He liked Maisie Winters. There was about her a boyish, slangy camaraderie that made for popularity.
"Well, the Boches didn't get us that time," said Charlie, with satisfaction. "Nor the old fliver, either. Hello! Here's General Haig and all his staff. Or is it General Disorder? Hurry up with the Mulligan, Mother Gervaise we've got to gobble and go." He slipped into the seat next to Ruth, smiling at her. He was just a hungry, slangy boy. But those others
"Oh, girls!" gasped Laura suddenly, "tell me what this is coming up the hill? Or am I seeing something that you folks don't?" "Gee!" exclaimed the slangy Bobby, forgetting her indignation with Chet and the other boys. "Is it? Can it be?" "Pretty Sweet!" ejaculated Jess, beginning to laugh. "And he is in his forest green hunting suit. I call it his 'Robin Ridinghood' suit."
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