"Both Uncle John and that tramp we encountered have met on common ground to bewail the lack of a daily newspaper 'in our midst'to speak in journalistic parlance.

Therefore we may picture the Fifth stage of the Self-contemplation of Spirit as its awakening to the recognition of its own Artistic Ability, its own absolute freedom of action and creative powerjust as in studio parlance we say that an artist becomes "free of his palette."

This buttery was in a lean-to, as a small addition to the original building was called in the parlance of the country; and, the object being shade and coolness, on account of the milk with which it was usually well stored at this season of the year, it projected back to the very cliff, where it was half hid in bushes and young trees.

In vulgar parlance he was rattled to death, this commonplace little lawyer who for a score of years had dealt cynically with the loves and lives of the flock of female butterflies who fluttered annually in and out of the office.

Party intrigue had accomplished what, in court parlance, is called the disgrace, but which, in the language of common sense, means only the dismissal of this great man.

It is common parlance among Christian people to speak of what a man "is worth" meaning how much money he has.

In the parlance of Spiritualism, he could never "purify" his soul and rise to a higher "sphere" till he had made restitution,though to that part of the communications I paid little attention.

We had a dispute about the word "heir," which I contended was pronounced like "air;" he said that might be in common parlance; or that we might so use it, speaking of the "Heir-at-Law," a comedy; but that in the Law Courts it was necessary to give it a full aspiration, and to say Hayer; he thought it might even vitiate a cause, if a Counsel pronounced it otherwise.

In legal parlance, it might be interpreted as the joining of issue.

"This, dear Queen," Katie confided to the dog stretched at her feet, "is what in vulgar parlance is known as 'nothing doing,' and in poetic language is termed the 'simple life.'

There is only one village in Alderneya paltry place, named St. Anne, or in common parlance La Ville; and there a detachment of troops is generally stationed.

The African slave trade has become such a mere technic, in common parlance, that the fact of its being proper slavery is overlooked.

" In Mitchell's own parlance he "beat Mr. Peebleby to the punch."

What we in common parlance call the action of frost, and which in this climate is well known to be very powerful, is not particularly injurious to organized bodies.

" When my wife and I set out for our drive in the cool of the evening,afternoon is "evening" in Southern parlance,one of the servants put into the rock-away two large earthenware jugs.

Of course "nature" in common parlance a wholly inaccurate term, by the way, especially when used as if to express a single entityis entirely ruthless, no less so as regards types than as regards individuals, and entirely indifferent to good or evil, and works out her ends or no ends with utter disregard of pain and woe.

This quantity of air must, therefore, be admitted by some means or other into the room, or the chimney will, in ordinary parlance, "smoke;" that is, the products of combustion, very largely diluted with fresh air, will not all find their way up the flue with sufficient velocity to overcome the pressure of the heavy cold air at the top of the chimney.

Yet their attractions are not of that general character which delights an untravelled eye: they belong rather to the wonderful than what is, in common parlance, the beautiful.

A South Indian tank in our parlance would be an artificial lake.

The Hindús were very careful to screen their wives from the curiosity of strangers; and their great lawgiver, Manu, enjoined that married women should be cautiously guarded by their husbands in the inner apartments (antahpura) appropriated to women (called by the Muhammadans, Haram, and in common parlance, in India andar-mahall).

Kate smiled to think of how her mother would be questioning her about her "admirers," as she would phrase it in her mid-Victorian parlance.

He was an ill-looking person, poorly clad,what, in common parlance, we should call seedy.

Lastly, in the present edition I have shewn some grounds for thinking that the Golden Bough itself, or in common parlance the mistletoe on the oak, was supposed to have dropped from the sky upon the tree in a flash of lightning and therefore to contain within itself the seed of celestial fire, a sort of smouldering thunderbolt.

Goethe, who turned his life-experiences into poetry, has told us something of one such house not far from Coblenz, in the village of Ehrenbreitstein, beneath the fortress, and which in familiar Coblenz parlance goes by the name of "The Valley"the house of Sophie de Laroche.

She becomes false, cruel, greedy, prodigal of your money, parsimonious of her owna vampirea ghoulthe hideous thing we call in polite parlance a Fille de Marbre.