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"It isn't really." "Yes, it is. 'Common usage often converts the most ordinary phrase into slang or colloquialism. The writer should take care to avoid them," Betty quoted. "Try limitless depth." "All right, that's better still," Angela agreed. "There's a limitless depth To her bounteous store." "Oh, marvelous!" Polly exclaimed. "What rhymes with store paw, law, door, war, more More, that's it."
Go back to what you were doing before. I can get you private lessons. It is Seoul. There is gold in them there hills." Sang Huin laughed. He felt at home within this American Hillbilly colloquialism. "All right," he said; and so this was what they did. They stayed together that night and then looked for an apartment the next morning.
Judd was a good scholar, and the word is legitimately compounded, like ensphere and imparadise; but he did not invent it. Dante uses the word: "Perfetta vita ed alto merto inciela Donna piu su." LADIES' TRESSES. "The popular name, in the Southern States, for an herb," etc. In the Northern States also. Sometimes Ladies' Traces. LIEFER. "A colloquialism, also used in England."
Preciseness must be avoided, for in a young man it seemed to argue conscious effort: a loose sentence now and then, a colloquialism substituted for the more grammatical phrase. Heaven be thanked that he was unconcerned on the point of garb! Inferiority in that respect would have been fatal to his ease. His clothes were not too new, and in quality were such as he had the habit of wearing.
"And his secret died with him?" suggested Dormer Colville, looking at the end of his cigar with a queer smile. But Captain Clubbe made no answer. "One may suppose that he wanted it to die with him, at all events," added Colville, tentatively. "You are right," was the reply, a local colloquialism in common use, as a clincher to a closed argument or an unwelcome truth.
Her private inelegant word for Lowrie's wife was "bold;" indeed, describing to herself the younger woman's patronage of her bearing, she descended to her mother's colloquialism "brass." She thought this sitting at a dinner-table which held Vigne and her husband and Lowrie and Jean Hallet.
He told himself that he would be very glad to get out into the open air and collect his thoughts. He did not believe that his old fellow-countrywoman would, to use a vulgar English colloquialism, "give him away." But still, he would not feel quite at ease till she was safely deported and out of the way.
He reseated himself and began his duty letter in the tone of a judicious parent; but, warming as he wrote, under the influence of Annie's imagined sympathy, he presently broke forth with his usual arrogant colloquialism. "She might have had her pick of the junior officers in both branches. And there was a captain of engineers at the Presidio, a widower, but an awfully good fellow.
What he puts into the mouth of shepherds with whom he sits round the fire is more than twice as potent as if it were in his own narrative; he varies the point of view, and yet always without allowing himself to disappear from the scene he, the senor traveller. These spoken words are, it is true, in Borrow's own style, with little or no colloquialism, but they are simpler.
"And his secret died with him?" suggested Dormer Colville, looking at the end of his cigar with a queer smile. But Captain Clubbe made no answer. "One may suppose that he wanted it to die with him, at all events," added Colville, tentatively. "You are right," was the reply, a local colloquialism in common use, as a clincher to a closed argument or an unwelcome truth.
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