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...te you, Condy Rivers.” “There are others,” he returned airily. “Talk about slang.” “Now what will we do?” he cried. “Let’s do some- thing. Suppose we ... ...ng the past few days and refer to his diet of bromo- seltzers. He would be slangy, familiar, call her by her first name as many times as he dared, dis...

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...behavior. Again, he sets up a high standard of purity of diction, yet uses slang quite unnecessarily and inappropri- ately; and though a great master ...

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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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...e what had once been her tastes, and were now her necessities, she avoided slang, and all the insignia of eccentricity. Thus she mastered the secret o... ...g me if it ain’t! Ale and music—them’s my darlings!” the wretch vented his slang. “And I must have a talk with you. I’ll stick to you. I’m social when...

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...ipling tolerate any sort of stranger. Behind her came the bee who had been slanged by the Guard. “What is the world like, Melissa?” said a companion. ... ...am’s ser- vant in waiting, we naturally fell back more and more on the old slang, recalling at each glass those who had gone before. We did not sit at...

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... the roofs of the coaches. Each profession, each calling in France has its slang. “Have you seen the ‘Ducler’?” asked Minoret. “Monsieur Desire?” said...

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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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...TH: You are a liberal man: liberal in the true classical sense, not in the slang sense of modern politi- cians and education-mongers. Being so, I am s...

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...th his hands in his pockets looking quietly speculative. He specialised in slang and the disuse of English, and he played the rôle of an appreciative ...

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...ies about his works like a bloom or dew; but a Coventry ribbon-maker, or a slang Leamington squire, are looking on those very same landscapes too, and...

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...e ruinous price of ‘spatchcocks’ in Surrey. ‘Spatchcocks,’ it seems, was a slang term for crushed hens. He passed the examinations necessary to reduce...

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...d; and you had to guess the in- tentions of his soul by hackneyed phrases, slang, and vague, unfinished gestures. But though he said nothing of any co...

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...rofit, so that our ancient friend, when dy- ing, was declared, in whatever slang then prevailed, to cut up exceeding well. For sons and daughters ther...

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...eld sufficient to release him. Mademoiselle Claes was still, in Pierquin’s slang, “a four-hundred-thousand-franc girl.” “But,” he added, “if she doesn...

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...orded to him in his operations.’ Gad, it might have been one fat brigadier slangin’ another! Then he went into the Staff Corps.” “That—is—entirely—Sta... ...ar. One of our men, a young fellow from Dera Ismail, jumped on the wall to slang ‘em back, and jumped down, blubbing like a child. He’d been hit smack...

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...oons and flowers, daggers and foil, and various other messes in theatrical slang included under the comprehensive name of ‘properties.’ The bedrooms w...

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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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...printed Pieces debates, they are laudably imitative of the windy and wordy slang of the real original, and of nothing that is better in it. They have ...

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...ys the exotic question, and everything, the life, the place, the dialects—trader’s talk, which is a strange conglomerate of literary expressions and E...