And all these spoke together a jargon of which Barnaby True could not understand a single word, but which might have been Portuguese from one or two phrases he afterwards remembered.

"I'm not sure I understand your jargon," I said.

The hearer also is supposed to understand the terms as the speaker uses them, or else he talks jargon, and makes an unintelligible noise.

Nor have the modern philosophers, who have endeavoured to throw off the jargon of the schools, and speak intelligibly, much better succeeded in defining simple ideas, whether by explaining their causes, or any otherwise.

What a torture to hear his professional jargon, when every word he utters seems to threaten the life of the beloved woman.

In the first place, no playwright who understands the evolution of the modern theatre can nowadays use in his stage-directions the abhorrent jargon of the early nineteenth century.

And therefore let us melt this refined jargon into the old style for the improvement of such, who are not enough conversant in the new.

When at last he saw the men asleep on the floor he muttered some jargon which Sandy could not understand and turned back to the ladder again.

Shakespeare could hardly have picked up his conveyancer's jargon by hanging round the courts of law; and we find,to return to the first objection,that, in his early plays, written just after he arrived in London, he uses this peculiar phraseology just as freely and with as exact a knowledge as he displayed in after years, when (on the supposition in question) he must have become much more familiar with it.

A solemn awe not unmixed with envy pervaded the schoolroom as I, parrot-like, rattled off this valueless jargon of a people dead for hundreds of years.

This list, and others from different years, we give in the present edition, though we have rejected the barbarous jargon from the speeches themselves.

Please don't talk any more 'midshipman' to me until I get a chance to set the jargon down.

There were little half-articulate attempts, in the darkness, of men trying to show what they felta whisper or twoin the queer jargon that is growing up between the two armies.

It was connected with various juggling tricks and deceptions, affected an obscure jargon of language, and insinuated itself into every thing in which the hopes and fears of mankind were concerned.

I do not write you the poor woman's jargon, which was ludicrous; for I cannot write you the sighs, and tears, and piteous looks, and gestures, that made it pathetic; of course she did not know whither or to whom her real husband had been sold; but in the meantime Mr. K, that merciful Providence of the estate, had provided her with the above-named Tony, by whom she had had nine children, six of whom were dead; she, too, had miscarried twice.

But the word "friend," and the word "ruin," disturb him no more than so much jargon.

I hate the jargon of Art.

Our authors, too, as a general rule, have inherited the political jargon of the last century, and abound in "destiny of humanity," "inalienable rights," "virtue of the sovereign people," "base and bloody despots," and all that sort of phrase, earnest and real enough once, but little better than cant and twaddle now.

have you, hidden from the world, Learned the world's jargon and false estimates?

Oh, leave these jargons, and go your way straight to God's work, in simplicity and singleness of heart.