When I had recovered my breath, with a vocabulary inspired by the occasion, I told him, clearly and concisely, what I thought of him.
To me, one of the most interesting side lights of the war is the slang that forms a great part of the vocabulary of the trenches.
As it is not merely a large vocabulary that we wish, but a well chosen one, we shall do well to compare our version with Macaulay's and see in how many cases his word is better than ours.
He never tired of telling the stories that he read, and as he easily remembered the words of the book he rapidly acquired a somewhat astonishing vocabulary for a boy of his years.
The vocabulary of old oriental costume is surprisingly large, and some perplexity is caused by the independent evolution both of the technical terms (where they are intelligible) and of the articles of dress themselves.
A sketch of Cornish grammar is added, and a Cornish vocabulary from a MS.
She poured out her prodigal affections in kisses and caresses, and in a vocabulary of endearments whose profusion was always an astonishment to me.
The Naiband people may certainly be congratulated on the possession of a most extensive and complete vocabulary of swear words.
It will contain a vocabulary of the Koksoagmyut of over 7000 words.
His face was a thundercloud; his vocabulary disclosed a richness gleaned from camp and field which was a revelation even to our caddies; and that is no insignificant accomplishment.
A class that studies Shaw's plays in the morning may even catch the vocabulary of Shakespeare in the afternoon, repeated unconsciously by the lips of mountain children in the coves.
It may turn out that he will be known simply by the meek and nourishing kaiser roll on the breakfast table--the only surviving relic of a monarchical vocabulary in a peaceful and democratic universe.
It came when his vocabulary was bare of vituperation, abusive epithet, and profanity.
Martin O'Connor standing on the outskirts of the betting ring, searching a limited vocabulary for language with which to garnish his emotions, felt a nudge at his elbow.
Hence the word "cyclone" passed into the general vocabulary with a connotation of violence, which, in everyday speech, it still retains.
And this moral strength he conveyed in every action in a manner which no violence, no extent of vocabulary could have done.
The German waiting for the knife of Versailles to fall was vomiting a vocabulary of fear, hope, threat, despair.
A sort of revenge, as if his vocabulary with its intricate verbal sophistications were avenging itself upon interloping emotions.
At times it seemed to Dorn that he was even incapable of thinking, that he possessed a plastic vocabulary endowed with a life of its own.
As if his vocabulary desired to empty itself before Rachel.
Out of the wretchedness of garbled emotions that had become the whole of Erik Dorn, his vocabulary arose with a facile paint brush and painted upon his thought.
His vocabulary sighed as if admitting defeat and uselessness.
I could keep my vocabulary out of our love we would both be better off.
There were no verbs in his vocabulary comprehending possibilities of usefulness within range of the present tense.
Of the canvas you make a screen, you build a dwelling with the pile of stones, chisel a door-sill out of the block, with the vocabulary you write an essay.
Acute reasoning and persuasive eloquence demanded all the discriminating refinements of grammar, and the choice of terms which an ample vocabulary supplies.
Mr. Hale has shown that the language of the Cherokees has a grammar mainly Huron-Iroquois, and a vocabulary largely recruited from some foreign source.
This frequently embodies a descriptive holophrasm, and so aids the native rendering of novel objects and ideas into a language, the vocabulary of which is necessarily devoid of the requisite terms.
The latter is therefore the more expressive and correct term to use for drawing or painting, while it illustrates the process of augmenting the vocabulary to meet the requirements of novel acquisitions in art.
At the same time the distinguished author, with the scientific caution which marked all his writings, is careful to mention that no vocabulary of the language was known.
The vocabulary in use in some rural districts in England has been found to include less than three hundred words; and in provincial dialects, thus restricted, the refinements of grammatical expression disappear.
It is open to any analyst of our critical vocabulary to draw out the fullest meanings that he can, from such pairs of related words as classic and romantic, fancy and imagination, wit and humor, reason and understanding, passion and sentiment.
The obligation to be properly "obsolete" in vocabulary was one that rested heavily on the consciences of most of these Spenserian imitators.
The vocabulary was Latinized because, in English, the mot propre is commonly a Saxon word, while its Latin synonym has a convenient indefiniteness that keeps the subject at arm's length.
The word "illegitimate" is not in the vocabulary of God.
The average American vocabulary is quite limited, and where an exactly phrased letter might completely convey an exact thought to a person of education, that same letter might be meaningless to a person who understands but few words.
Therefore, it is fatal in general letter writing to venture into unusual words or to go much beyond the vocabulary of, say, a grammar school graduate.
This perspicuity and exactness are secured by a new vocabulary which may seem at first glance, on account of its unfamiliarity, elaborate and incomprehensible, but which is, when mastered, the greatest possible aid to understanding.
With copious Questions and Examples, and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms.
The vocabularyis the vocabulary of the common people.
Their language being similar to that of the great apes Meriem could converse with them though the poverty of their vocabulary rendered these exchanges anything but feasts of reason.
He wanted to tell her how he loved her; but the emotion of his love choked him and the vocabulary of the Mangani was limited.
A vocabulary of the language spoken by the natives whom he may meet, using in the compilation of each the same English words.
It has the fullest, richest vocabulary in the world.
This technical vocabulary may be a necessity at times; but when a specialist addresses the public, his words must be the words which an average cultured man can understand.
It serves to bring out a whole new vocabulary in order to express the difference in the feelings of the narrator.
Each young writer has usually but one word, at the most two words, in his vocabulary to express each of these relations.
But thevocabulary which may be perfectly understood is not entirely in one's possession until it is used.
What a vocabulary one could accumulate, if from six to eighteen he added only two words a day!
The subjects themselves seem to call forth a cheap, slangy vocabulary and the vulgar phrases of sporting life.
In this way a vocabulary becomes a real possession.
