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Every word he uttered might have been heard in the remotest quarters of the room, yet he scarcely lifted his voice above a colloquial tone. The most striking feature in his whole manner was the utter absence of affectation of any kind.
Many people, I know from colloquial experiences, do at about this stage fly into a passion. But if you will exercise self-control, then I think you will see my point that, according to the method of voting, almost any sort of result may be got out of an election except the production of a genuinely representative assembly.
The days when the financial fortunes of books depended upon the colloquial support of influential people in a small Society are past; neither publishers nor authors as a class have any relation to Society at all, and actual access to newspaper offices is necessary only to the ranker forms of literary imposture.
Modern English, and especially colloquial English, has borrowed a great deal from the American way of speaking English. The people of the United States, though their language is that of the mother-country, have modified it so that it is, as it were, a mirror of the difference between American and English life. In America there is more hurry and bustle and less dignity.
For twenty minutes, by the clock, she aired her views in a stream of vigorous colloquial English, lapsing into ready-made phrases of melodrama, common to the normally inexpressive, in moments of excitement.... To the familiar tuning-up process, Nevil listened unmoved. But his anger rose with her rising eloquence: the unwilling anger of a cool man, more formidable than mere temper.
They never uttered a word, but Bob's impatience and nervousness would have kept his tongue in constant motion had it not been for George, who gave him an energetic prod in the ribs whenever he showed a disposition to become colloquial.
The British had already been in Contalmaison, but did not stay. "Too many German machine guns and too much artillery fire and not enough men," to put it with colloquial army brevity. It often happened that a village was entered and parts of it held during a day, then evacuated at night, leaving the British guns full play for the final "softening."
Are you going somewhere?" "I'm going to the theater on Wednesday night." "Who with?" Nina in her family was highly colloquial. "With Doctor Livingstone." "Are you joking?" Nina demanded. "Joking? Of course not." Nina sat down again on the bed, her eyes on her sister, curious and not a little apprehensive. "It's the first time it's ever happened, to my knowledge," she declared.
But I confess I have a fatal handicap, one that has doubtless cost me my place at the head of American dramatists to-day. I have never been able to achieve colloquial dialogue! My style is too finished, you understand, my diction too perfect. Manager after manager has been on the verge of accepting a play, and been deterred solely on account of this too literary quality.
Sampson, are these three hours entirely spent inconstruing and translating? 'Doubtless, no; we have also colloquial intercourse to sweeten study: neque semper arcum tendit apollo. The querist proceeded to elicit from this Galloway Phoebus what their discourse chiefly turned upon. 'Upon our past meetings at Ellangowan; and, truly, I think very often we discourse concerning Miss Lucy, for Mr.
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