Then there are a couple of Finns who ought to be with us, but I can't talk their lingo.

He had been at sea, of course; there was no denying that fact, for he knew ships, and spoke the lingo of blue water; but the very idea that that blood-stained buccaneer, whose hated name was on the lips of every sea-faring man of Britain, would ever dare openly to visit England, and then sail under his own name on board an English vessel for Virginia, was too preposterous for consideration.

"I can't tell all we did for the next six months, because Dravot did a lot I couldn't see the hang of, and he learned their lingo in a way I never could.

To listen to her and Tom was the greatest treat Tulee had; but as she particularly prided herself on speaking like white people, she often remarked that she couldn't understand half their "lingo."

they are the dirtiest beasts that iver jabbered human lingo; an' their babies, I raaly belaves, is caught with a hook an' line in the muddy creeks where the catfish breed; but, fur all that, I don't think they could have been equal to this piece of wickedness.

"No, I can polish up my lingo with the best of 'em.

I know ye've got a smooth lingo when ye get in a trap, but ye can't squirm out this time.

"Blest if I've ever 'eard the lingo afore," said Bill.

She taught me the lingo and one or two other things; but what happened?