The slang of everyday energy sounded strangely from dying lipsalmost a whisper, and yet like a far-off bugle calling a captive to battle.

"Oh, that's middies' slang for escorting a pretty girl to a midshipman hop.

Quite forgetting her cousin, she tossed her head, twirled her fan, gave affected little shrieks at college jokes, and talked college slang in a way that convulsed Fletcher, who enjoyed the fun immensely.

EXERCISE - Slovenliness IV Replace the following slang with acceptable English: We pulled a new wrinkle.

Aunt Jane says she does wish I would eliminate the slang from my vocabulary.

I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York.

To force us fair nymphs to forego The hyperbole dear to our heart, And the slang without which speech is "slow," Is to make us a "people apart.

To translate his Moscow slang into the equivalent dialect of New York would be merely to transfer Broadway associations to the Ilyínka.

(Aunt Hattie forgot I was in the room, I know, or she'd never in the world have used slang like that!)

It is a spirit expressed more often in the slangs than in the tongues of men.

A most agreeable contrast, indeed, to the young men of the present day; who come in their shooting jackets, and talk slang to their partners,though really the girls are just as bad,and stand with their backs to the fire, and smell of smoke, and go to sleep after dinner, and pay no respect to old age, nor to youth either, I think.