"Idiom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other, sir, may be both charitably and accurately described in your native idiom as a daughter ...
— Fanny's First Play • George Bernard Shaw
... also observe, that the stress which Mr. Everett lays upon the phrase "no iniquity," shows either great carelessness, or great ignorance of the idiom of the Hebrew Scriptures; because every man, familiar with those writings, knows that this expression is one of those called Hebreisms, which must be understood in a restrained sense. In proof of which, and a decisive one too, I would refer him to the prophecy of Balaam, recorded, Num. ch. xxii. ...
— Five Pebbles from the Brook • George Bethune English
... travels, by the name of Prester John, from a corruption of the Persian word Djehan, which signifies the world, to which has been prefixed the French word prestre or pretre, priest. Thus the priest world, and the god world are in the Persian idiom the same. ...
— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney
... he cried, using the Haitian idiom with its perpetual recurrence of "Yes" and "No," and went on, "and ...
— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... was his greatest achievement. It is open to criticism in many ways; it is not so exact in scholarship, nor so faithful to its avowed text, as might be expected from his reputation; but it reveals a profound acquaintance with the vocabulary and customs of the Muslims, with their classical idiom as well as their vulgarest "Billingsgate," with their philosophy and modes of thought as well as their most secret and most disgusting habits. Burton's "anthropological notes," embracing a wide field of pornography, apart from questions of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various
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