Among this variety of conjectures and acute controversies, I find it however agreed on all hands, that the vocabulary of the Roman, and the idiom of the Celtic, have chiefly contributed to the formation of the Gallic, Romance, which is sufficient to prove that it partakes of a common origin with that of the Grisons.

An old permits a man to kiss a girl who is standing under mistletoe. establishes many peculiar idioms in a language.

They have both smiled often since so I expect it is some French idiom for reconciliation.

Another way of raising the Language, and giving it a Poetical Turn, is to make use of the Idioms of other Tongues.

Philologers seek to revive the neglected idiom with little success.

Were there any mean Phrases or Idioms in Virgil and Homer, they would not shock the Ear of the most delicate Modern Reader, so much as they would have done that of an old Greek or Roman, because we never hear them pronounced in our Streets, or in ordinary Conversation.

The act of writing, in spite of past experience, brings with it the vague, delightful illusion of an audience nearer to my idiom than the Cherokees, and more numerous than the visionary One for whom many authors have declared themselves willing to go through the pleasing punishment of publication.

There is in America a very distinctive tradition indeed, which animates the entire nation, gives a unique idiom to its press and all its public utterances, and is manifestly the starting point from which the adjustments of the future must be made.

" Alphonso's desperate attempt to translate the foregoing idiom into French was interrupted by Madame's retirement into the house, whither she beckoned Cockerell to follow her.

The more common modern meaning of the idiom en vouloir à is, 'to have a grudge against'; but the expression used in the text is also frequent with the meaning here given.