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Updated: May 23, 2025
"It is not necessary to talk as ungrammatically as the coastal barbarians, since I can tell by your accent that you are a man of education. What slave is it that you want?" "The one that you just received from Fasimba. He belongs to me." Jason abandoned his linguistic ruse and put himself even more on guard, taking a quick look around at the empty sands.
Say, now that I remember back, he used to have quite a way with animals, too, although I doubt if he had anything like your powers." "You said I'd probably develop other mental abilities," Hanlon grinned nervously, "but I certainly never imagined anything like this." "Me neither," ungrammatically. "It's weird!"
Many persons who never write ungrammatically are inaccurate in speech, and the very familiarity and ease of manner which the story-teller must assume may lead her into colloquialisms and careless expressions. Of course, however, the language must be simple; the words, for the most part, Saxon.
For a moment there was no sound except her panting and Betty Neal stared wildly at her from above her book. "He's come!" gasped Mrs. Sommers. "Who?" "Him!" As if this odd explanation made everything clear, Betty Neal sprang from her chair and she grew so pale that every freckle stood out. "Him!" she echoed ungrammatically. Then: "Where is he? Let me downstairs."
At college you don't get a chance to make two starts. You're sized up from the crack of the pistol." "I haven't the money to make a splurge even if I wanted to." "Borrow." "Who from?" asked Jeff ungrammatically. "You can rustle it somewhere. I'm borrowing right now." "It's different with you. I'm used to doing without things. Don't worry about me. I'll get along."
He doesn't know he's going to marry Alice. It almost makes one a Calvinist, doesn't it. He's predestined, but perfectly happy." "Who is he in love with?" demanded Austen, ungrammatically. "I'm going to say good-by to him. I'll meet you in the field, if you don't care to come. It's only manners, after all, although the lemonade's all gone and I haven't had a drop." "I'll go along too," he said.
"It's only me," announced Patricia, ungrammatically, but none the less undauntedly. "What have you been doing there?" the elder sister demanded, her momentary fright making her indignation even greater. "Listenin'," replied the culprit, shamelessly. "Patricia Gorham!" For Alice to use the child's full name conveyed the absolute limit of reproach, but Patricia stood her ground fearlessly.
How was I to know how to build a nest! And the worst of it was the way she went on about it." "She!" said Fairyfoot "Oh, her, you know," replied the little man, ungrammatically, "my wife. She'd always been a robin, and she knew how to build a nest; she liked to order me about, too she was one of that kind. But, of course, I wasn't going to own that I didn't know anything about nest-building.
She flashed a look of pretended disdain at her young men. Nevertheless, she made laughing protest. "It's not me, but Mesa, that counts," she answered ungrammatically. "Tell me that you're going to help us set orchards blossoming in these deserts, and we'll all love you." "You offer an inducement, Miss Lee. Come let us walk up to the Point and see this wonderful country of yours."
"It's me," said I, ungrammatically but stoutly, hoping that Jem at any rate would slip off. But he had recovered himself and his loyalty, and unhesitatingly announced, "No, it's me," and was picking the bits of grass off his cheeks and knees when I got down beside him. "I'm sorry you came to take my walnuts like this," said the voice from above.
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