parlance

In common parlance men speak of those whom they honour and love as 'coming first' with them.

He had recognised in me a ship's officer, very possibly looking for a berth like himself, and so far a comrade, but still a man belonging to that sparsely-peopled after-end of a ship, where a great part of her reputation as a "good ship," in seaman's parlance, is made or marred.

"She is not what in common parlance is called a lady," said Angel, unflinchingly, "for she is a cottager's daughter, as I am proud to say.

At King William Island, in the Admiralties, Kwaque had made, in the parlance of the South Pacific, a pier-head jump.

A technical sense has been affixed to the term "appellate," which, in our law parlance, is commonly used in reference to appeals in the course of the civil law.

In the present instance, as we have already hinted, the castle, as Judge Templeton’s dwelling was termed in common parlance, came to be the model, in some one or other of its numerous excellences, for every aspiring edifice within twenty miles of it.

In that time he colored the parlance of the English-speaking race, and formed upon himself every minor talent attempting fiction.

It was a case, in the parlance of thieves and police, of "rail-roading." Jim Hall was being "rail-roaded" to prison for a crime he had not committed.

For such destruction of property innocent men were frequently punished-- "railroaded" in the parlance of the times.

The Doctor again assumed his air of resolution, and, without further parlance, proceeded to do as desired.

* In vulgar parlance the condiments of a repast are called by the American "a relish," substituting the thing for its effect.

And if ever there were an unfeeling handsome chin that looked as if, for certain, it had never been, in familiar parlance,