SELL, RUTH. Practical polyglot technical lexicography and the professional polyglot technician.

"But the Baltimoreans only admired my pictures,they did not buy them; they only wondered at my polyglot accomplishment, and were content with ringing silly-kind changes on an Encyclopaedic compliment about the Admirable Crichton, and other well-educated personages, to be found alphabetically embalmed in Conversations-Lexicons,they did not inquire into my system of teaching, or have quarterly knowledge of my charges.

"] I had brought no servant with me; the average British servant is worse than useless in a foreign country, and the dubiously-polyglot courier is a snare and a deception on campaign.

No one could have dreamed that the tall, homely man, dashing in and out in his shirt-sleeves between the rooms and the moving-van drawn up at the curb, had come down with the deliberate purpose of making a neighborhood out of a chaos, of organizing that jumble of scattered polyglot lives....

The five hens were creatures of mediocrity, deserving no special mentionall very well for laying eggs and similar domestic duties, but from an intellectual point of view simply napoo, as the polyglot stylists have it.

I verily believe that, despite our haste, we would have ended by escorting Placidia across Paris, and ensconcing her in the Marseilles train, had not Providence intervened in the person of a kindly disposed polyglot traveller.