There is, in Japan, far away from Tokio, a district where people in common parlance can make no difference between shi and su.
In hillparlance a woodscolt signifies one whose birth has been sanctioned by no prior rites of matrimony.
The laurel, which is known in hill parlance as ivy, was gay with pink-hearted blossom.
I was unacquainted with the Bohemian "song and dance" parlance in such extremities, and wondered would letting my secret come out let a dinner come in.
We became pleasant companions, and concluded on Sunday evening to go to the "Follies Bergere"--in American parlance a variety theater.
Terrance has had what in vulgar parlance is termed a "tough time" with several of his own stubborn negroes; and having already heard a deal about this very bad case, is prepared to proclaim him fit only to be hanged.
The party gather round the front stoop, and are what is termed in southern parlance "tuckered out.
Surely it was at least twenty-four restful hours before the "parlance of men" caught up with Daphne and her father again.
There were caves and thickets and the Gap itself was what local parlance termed a "master shut-in.
Chierico' of course means a cleric, but in commonparlance it is reserved for the boy who, though lay, wears a clerical dress for the time he is serving mass, or attending to the church generally.
Che bolliva,' constantly applied in Roman parlance to solids as well as liquids.
In the telegraphic parlance of to-day the line was "busted.
In the common parlance of telegraphy, there was a "kick" in the instrument that came in and mutilated the signals.
A private line, in the parlance of telephone exchange working, may, therefore, be a party line, as inconsistent as this may seem.
Imprimis: The Doctor, while a member of the General Assembly, voted for a measure known in local parlanceas "the Lake Front Bill.
It was what is known in mountain parlance as a "protracted meeting.
McKenzie of Kentucky, the representative from what in local parlance was known as "the pennyryle district.
Then came the leadsman's long-drawn chant, once so familiar, the monotonous repeating in river parlance of the depths of water.
Joseph Twichell, who had no special scruples concerning Shakespearian parlance and customs.
Less mischievous things are branded with the name in the common-place parlanceof the world.
In military parlance he would have been described as a damned good shot.
The intensity of gravitation is said in mathematicalparlance "to vary inversely with the square of the distance.
Such a set of objects would be described in astronomical parlance as being in the same plane.
To that 'Sea of Serenity' which astronomers tell us is located in the left eye of the face known in common parlance as the man in the moon.
VIII Courage proper is somewhat of the kind I have described, but there are dispositions, differing in five ways, which also bear in common parlance the name of Courage.
Every man or woman present there was a judge of a horse, for all were hunting people and knew what, in stable parlance in the Midlands, is known as "a good bit of stuff" when they saw it.
Sibberton had had before his marriage what is known in club parlance as "a good time.
Its opponents accused it of following what in American political parlance is called a "stand-pat" policy, but it remained in office longer than any ministry up to its time, a little over two years.
It was a day after "the events narrated in the last chapter," as story-book parlance has it.
