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...y at the beginning of this century, was the keeping of “rats.” The “rat”—a slang word that has become old-fashioned— was a girl of ten or twelve in th... ...tice, to be questioned by the examining judge. This, in 263 Balzac prison slang, is called “going up for examination.” Then the accused are again con... ...they are to be sub- jected to a preliminary examination—to “go up,” in the slang of the Courts—or to appear before the magistrate of the lower Court, ... ...y the prisoner from the inquisition of the magistrate—well named in prison slang, “the curious man”— it must always be remembered that persons impriso... ...paper. The sense of the first—for it was written in the language, the very slang of slang, agreed upon by Asie and himself, a cipher of words—was as f...

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...es- son, and consisted of the apparently unfeeling words: “You ought to filer, you know—you really ought.” Pemberton stared. He had learnt enough Fren...

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...their favor. “We have fallen flat,” said Lousteau to his companion, in the slang of the stage. In 1836, Lousteau, worn by sixteen years of struggle in... ...o the man who, in all Paris, most delighted in such practical jokes—in the slang of artists, a “charge”—Lousteau made a great show of settling the Mus... ...wels she possessed, on which her “uncle,” for she was learning to talk the slang of the town, advanced her nine hundred francs. She kept three hundred... ...audraye is figged out as if for a first night,” said he —une premiere, the slang abbreviation for a first per- formance. “Do not forget the respect yo... ...was constantly afraid of an execution on goods which, to use the bailiff’s slang, had already received the last sacra- ment. Fanny Beaupre had nothing...

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... not to live by his wit, and was pronounced to be a “clever fellow” in the slang of the coterie of semi-comrades. “Oh! we must wait and see what he ha... ...rk he is send- ing us is pitiable.” “T o have written oneself out” (in the slang of journalism), is a verdict very hard to live down. It passed everyw...

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...he best” for- eigners (as the phrase is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virt... ...andy-and-water, and Captain Rook with his horsejockey jokes and prize-ring slang, and their like. “I wonder whether he will know me,” she thought. Lor...

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...he began to talk to him; whereas, put him at Iffley Lock, and he could out-slang the boldest bargeman. At dinner, James appeared choking in a white ne... ... He was too old to listen to the banter of the assis- tant surgeon and the slang of the youngsters, at which old O’Dowd, with his bald head and red fa...

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...u’s beauty that they felt the necessity of “rigging themselves up” (studio slang). They, therefore, put on their most superlative suits and then walke...

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...e. “I rather think so,” replied she, understanding the full meaning of his slang expression. “What is to become of us?” Marneffe went on. “The land- l... ...ership with him in his financial operations. Crevel had taught Valerie the slang and the procedure of the money market, and, like every Parisian woman... ...oss to any one but the gulls— excuse me, you do not perhaps understand the slang word— they will have nothing to blame me for, and will find a tidy li... ...tire to Clichy.” “Talk away, then, ‘don’t know yer,’” said the singer. The slang words, borrowed from the Street Arab, and spo- ken by these women, ma...

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...lice invented mousetraps. As perhaps our readers are not familiar with the slang of the Rue de Jerusalem, and as it is fifteen years since we ap- plie...

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... doubtfully legitimate quality now being inflicted upon the language. ‘The slang from below is perhaps preferable?’ said Colney. ‘As little-less.’ ‘Bu... ..., must continue to practise piracy, surely, or else take reinforcements in slang, otherwise it is inexpressive of new ideas.’ ‘Possibly the new ideas ... ... inexpressive of new ideas.’ ‘Possibly the new ideas are best expressed in slang.’ ‘If insular. They will consequently be incommunicable to foreigners...

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...right behind me,” replied Vermichel, with a backward gesture. In workmen’s slang “ape” meant master. The word belonged 54 Sons of the Soil to the dic... ...his time very sincere) for the preliminary of what he called, in servant’s slang, “varnish,” and he made the great mistake of letting his opinion appe... ...pot,” untranslatable, and without equivalent in English. A “croute” is the slang term for a man behind the age.—T r. 213 Balzac of furniture might be...

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...reve.” As Mlle. Michonneau seemed mystified, Gondureau ex- plained the two slang words for her benefit. Sorbonne and chump are two forcible expression...

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...it in on the ladies.” Strefford, Lansing had noticed, always used American slang when he was slightly at a loss, and wished to divert attention from t...

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...he began to talk to him; whereas, put him at Iffley Lock, and he could out-slang the boldest bargeman. At dinner, James appeared choking in a white ne... ... He was too old to listen to the banter of the assis- tant surgeon and the slang of the youngsters, at which old O’Dowd, with his bald head and red fa... ...he best” for- eigners (as the phrase is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virt... ...andy-and-water, and Captain Rook with his horsejockey jokes and prize-ring slang, and their like. “I wonder whether he will know me,” she thought. Lor...

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...as worth a penny.” “The better reason for my not being conversant with the slang of the bank, which is here dinning in my ears from morning to night; ...

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... ‘You don’t mean to ask him?’ ‘Catch me! I know how he would look at me.’ ‘Slang! A forfeit!’ ‘Oh, it’s holiday time, and the boarders can’t hear. The... ...n used to good women in his own family, and would not like to see her in a slangy fast set. All her own gaieties have been under Lady Kirkaldy’s wing,...

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... du Portail, wishing, perhaps, to show that he could, on occasion, use the slang of a low billiard-room, “‘stop the charge’” (meaning: Do nothing more...

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...he concern amounted to five hundred thousand francs. In the stock-exchange slang of the day, this share of the spoils was a ‘sop in the pan.’ Nucingen...

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...ioned the clerk curiously about the customs of the capital; he even talked slang to dazzle the bourgeois, saying bender, crummy, dandy , macaroni, the...

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...our omnibuses. Dirt and fustian will vanish before cleanliness and livery. Slang will be forgotten when civility becomes general: and that en- lighten...

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...our omnibuses. Dirt and fustian will vanish before cleanliness and livery. Slang will be forgotten when civility becomes general: and that en- lighten... ...oons and flowers, daggers and foil, and various other messes in theatrical slang included under the comprehensive name of ‘properties.’ The bedrooms w...