Phraseology

Examples

• It was perfect in construction, in phraseology, in grammar, in emphasis, in pronunciation --everything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To use the modern phraseology, naturalistic studies are indispensable, but they are in the interests of humanistic and ideal ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The last two seemed to give him a way of thinking, to adopt Franklin's phraseology, that had an influence on some of the principal events of his life. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They continued to correspond, she in the unweighed language of unwavering affection, he in the chilly phraseology of the polished rhetorician. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Only the stately phraseology and the measured speech of the sons of the Prophet are suited to a venerable antiquity like this. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In Hegelian phraseology the state is the reality of which justice is the idea. Plato. The Republic.
• To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• At all times of the day and night the phraseology of that tiresome address fell upon our ears. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It will have been remarked that Mr. Yorke varied a little in his phraseology. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She thought her the model of all excellence, and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In the ordinary phraseology, it is not transferable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nearly all the histories, nearly all the political literature of the last two centuries in Europe, have been written in its phraseology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• For exa mple, we may say that the apple falls because it is heavy, or we may substitute synonymous phraseology that helps us to view the falling apple in its un iversal aspects. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The phraseology betrays the particular provincial tradition within which the author is writing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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