"Idiomatic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... repeated, he began to say that he had many mercies to be thankful for. Then he higgled and hammered and fumbled for the said mercies, and tried to enumerate them, but in phrases conventional and derived from tracts and sermons; whereas his statement of grievances had been idiomatic. ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
... m esa nia; there are two idiomatic uses in this phrase: 1. cualquiera in an ironic sense nadie (a frequent use); 2. quitaba quitara, a substitution of tense often found in the main clause of a contrary to fact, or less vivid ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... "house-hen;" one of those idiomatic terms of endearment which cannot be reproduced ...
— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby
... khwaja means "chief," or "master;" it is generally applied to rich merchants, &c., such as we would call "men of respectability." The idiomatic London English for it is "governor," or (as it ...
— Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes • Mir Amman of Dihli
... Bunyan's popularity is the felicity of his style. His English is vernacular, idiomatic, universal; varying with the subject; homely in the continuous narrative; racy and pungent in his lively and often rapid discourse; and, when occasion requires, "a model of unaffected dignity and rhythmical flow;" but always plain, strong, and natural. However, ...
— Life of Bunyan • Rev. James Hamilton
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