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One of them, a Boer, " she hesitated for the right word; then she adopted the vernacular of the service "went out, the other day; and, among his mourners, the sincerest ones were the two London Tommies in the two next beds. War isn't all hatred, by any means. Turn nurse for a month and you'll find it out." "Or else turn patient," Carew interpolated quietly.
A similar process of a milder and less serious extent occurs in those temporary anæmias of young girls, known for centuries past in the vernacular as "the green sickness." And a delicate lemon tint of this same origin, accompanied by a waxy pallor, is significant of the deadly, pernicious anæmia and the later stages of cancer.
"I look upon that term as somewhat objectionable, but I fawncy in the vernacular of college life it is one that is quite expressive." "I'm not trying to boot-lick you or any other professor!" retorted Will, now feeling angry and insulted as well. "I didn't stay here to-day because I wanted to. You yourself asked me to do it. And I asked you a perfectly fair question.
In the first place, the usual work of a detective does not demand any extraordinary powers of deduction at all. These functions are known in the vernacular as spotting, locating, and trailing. It requires patience, some powers of observation, and occasionally a little ingenuity. The real detective under such circumstances is the man to whom they hand in their reports.
The venerable gentle-looking Arab, whose face beamed effulgent with benevolence and virtue, murmured: "He will have but little blood, the dog. None of it must be er wasted by the ah butcher." It may have been a pious ejaculation or a whole speech in his own peculiar vernacular.
"I got yer number," he said, after a comprehensive survey of my person, "you're C. Calhoun. Ain't you?" "I sure am," I agreed, meeting his taste for the vernacular, "and now for your real name." "Terence McGuire," he smiled, and with a quick gesture he snatched off his cap. "C'mon in, if you like. I'm F. Stone's right-hand man." "What!" I cried, in amazement. "Yep, that's what.
The fact affects the whole work. It becomes thereby simpler, homelier, more vernacular: it is a story that is a native emanation. The groundwork of plot too is simple, vital: and moreover, founded on a true incident. Effie, the younger of two sisters, is betrayed; concerning her betrayer there is mystery: she is supposed to commit child-murder to hide her shame: a crime then punishable by death.
The exact account of the captain's framework in the process of the fall was graphically portrayed in our blunt and racy vernacular, which a society nourished upon Norman-English and English-Latin banishes from print, largely to its impoverishment, some think.
Whenever he was abroad, it was his courteous habit to write in the language of the country where he was residing French, when he was in his house on the Champs Elysees; Italian, when he was in his villa at Baiae; and so on. When he was in his own country he felt himself free to deviate sometimes from the vernacular into whatever language were aptest to his frame of mind.
The Englishman, as I afterwards learned, was a French-built ship called the Fortunée; or, as Jack termed her, now she had got to be designated in the Anglo-Saxon dialect, the Fortunee which was liberally rendered into the vernacular as the "Happy-Go-Lucky."
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