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Meanings of familiar speech in inglês

russo
разговорный язык
português
linguagem coloquial
espanhol
estilo coloquial
catalão
llengua col·loquial

Style of the language used for casual communication.

Related terms
linguagem coloquial
Usage of familiar speech in inglês
1
I shuddered as the man grew colloquial-andwith familiar speech of another day.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
2
Very careful, prudent, precise persons are seldom entertaining in familiar speech.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
3
Everything has its due season, familiar speech and formal speech.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
4
Mr. Calton, construing her silence and averted head into some resentment of his familiar speech, continued hurriedly:-
From Sand Hill to Pine
5
Peyton ignored the now familiar speech.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
6
When the traitor reached the house, Savard recognised him for a friend, and entertained him with familiar speech.
A Book of Scoundrels
7
It was a strangely familiar speech.
American Gods
8
Having delivered this Parthian compliment in an oratorical passage through the doorway, the captain descended, outside, into familiar speech.
A Ward of the Golden Gate
9
Barely he knew the cowering form that hid its dreadful punishment; then he springs to accost it in familiar speech:
The Aeneid of Virgil
10
He did say, adopting familiar speech to suit the theme, You know, ladies, we English come of a rough stock.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
11
At sound of the familiar speech, the dog went forward, wagging his tail violently, as if he recognised an old acquaintance.
The Little Colonel's Hero
12
I'm afraid you went hungry sometimes. Immediately he marvelled at his familiar speech, but she did not seem to resent it.
Stories of a Western Town
13
The tenth chapter, "Between gentlemen and a servant; wherein they talk of going to supper, and familiar speech late in the evening."
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
14
Had the sergeant gone alone and called in familiar speech, "Come awa' oot, Bobby!" he would probably have run to the man.
Greyfriars Bobby
15
But in iambic verse, which reproduces, as far as may be, familiar speech, the most appropriate words are those which are found even in prose.
The Poetics of Aristotle
16
Save such familiar speeches for those who appreciate them.
The Northern Light
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