The baby, whose cradle Lincoln had rocked, was a man now, and was in what the vernacular phrased "pretty considerable of a tight fix.
Again we have versions before us in the vernacular of Brittany, Spain, Scotland, and several set in the form of songs that are current in different parts of England.
The chant forms part of the Jewish liturgy, and is still recited in the original Hebrew or in the vernacular as part of a religious ceremonial at Easter.
The advertisements in vernacular languages that one meets with, circulated and posted up in all sorts of places, tell the same tale convincingly; for the advertiser knows his business, and will not angle where no fish rise.
On the other hand the speech of Lowland Scots, with whose richness in masterpieces our poverty is naturally contrasted, has been employed for literature as long as the vernacular English.
But to Burns there was given an instrument perfected by long centuries of use--the Scotch vernacular song and ballad; Carleton had to make his own, and the genius for form was lacking in him.
The vernacular Irish literature is there to prove that Irish fancy gives too much rather than too little.
Syriac was closely related to the vernacular Aramaic of Palestine and was spoken in the adjoining region: whilst Latin was the familiar idiom of all the Churches of the West.
The modern vernacular for the successful squire of dames was then unknown.
As elsewhere in India, the modern vernacular literature of the Maratha country arose under the influence of the religious reformation inaugurated by Ramanuja early in the 12th century.
In his second stage he entirely emancipated himself from this, and became one of the easiest, least affected and most vernacularpoets of France.
Indeed, the vernacular prose translations of the Scriptures were in that country of little merit or power, and the form of poetry was still preferred to prose, even for the most incongruous subjects.
No vernacular authors of outstanding merit have appeared during the last century.
The standard form of speech is that of Poona in Bombay, and, in its various dialects it covers the larger part of that province, in which it is the vernacular of more than eight and a half millions of people.
This building in our vernacular we have named Parlagio [Parliament house].
Sidenote: Portuguese Literature] How closely the new vernacular literatures reflected significant elements in the national life is particularly observable in the case of Portugal.
The printing of these works at once stereotyped their respective languages, so that since the sixteenth century the written forms of the vernacular tongues have been subject to relatively minor change.
Some of the Kabyles retain their vernacular speech, while others have more or less completely adopted Arabic.
The Pisaca languages also include Khowar, the vernacular of Chitral, and the Kafir group of speeches, of which the most important is the Bashgali of Kafiristan.
Accounts of travel, especially to the Holy Land, culminated in the famous Voyage of Mandeville which, though it has never been of so much importance in French as in English, perhaps first took vernacular form in the French tongue.
With a possible ancestry of Romance and Teutonic cantilenae, Breton lais, and vernacular legends, the new literature has a certain pattern and model in Latin and for the most part ecclesiastical compositions.
Aesop, Phaedrus, Babrius were translated and imitated in Latin and in the vernacular by this class of writer, and some of the best known of "fablers" date from this time.
Of late years there has been a great change in this respect, and some of the presses produce beautiful vernacular work, and soon their English printing will leave little to be desired.
They talk a little English, dropping back into the vernacular with some relief when unable to say exactly what they want in the foreign tongue.
Vernacular prayer books are generally sold at a cost much below that of their production.
Missionaries generally begin to exercise their conversational powers in the vernacular by trying to say a few words to the boys of the mission.
Also, terms taken from Christian theology have, of necessity, a much fuller meaning to the minds of Christian people who read them than is to be found in the vernacular expression which they represent.
You should have heard the sterling vernacular in which Clem gave utterance to her feelings as soon as she had deciphered the mocking letter?
He was a man of ready wit, and spoke fluently in the vernacular tongue; powerful in speech, powerful in bringing over the people to whatever he desired.
To this opinion I assent; knowing that Charles the Great, whom none can deny to have been king of the Franks, always used the same vernacular language with the Franks on the other side of the Rhine.
They have also the familiar "King William was King James's Son"; I do not know whether the words in the vernacular which they use are the equivalent of ours or not.
When written in the vernacular they are not infrequently obscene, for one of the saddest phases of early sentiment here is that it is never innocent; but in English they run to pathos.
We had picked up the vernacular of the street carromata in Manila.
