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  • I suppose this was nothing but a more vernacular version of my grandmother's observation of the effect of TV on old people: that watching it would hasten their deaths.†  (source)
  • It was while she was at the college of architecture that she met Larry McCaslin, who was in Delhi collecting material for his doctoral thesis on "Energy Efficiency in Vernacular Architecture."†  (source)
  • "Hidy, Miss Eggers," he said, tipping an imaginary hat and sliding into the southern West Virginia vernacular.†  (source)
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  • Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones, thruffsteans or through-stones, as they call them in Whitby vernacular, actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.†  (source)
  • A new wave of translations, such as George Chapman's Iliad (1588-1611), brought Homer's poems into the vernaculars.†  (source)
  • I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) TRAILING Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance — her TRAIL might be clever, but it was decidedly not good-natured.†  (source)
  • But, in the vernacular, she had accepted several rides from Steven Kemp, who was almost a stranger.†  (source)
  • She didn't know a thing so rucked in the vernacular could have such an epic quality.†  (source)
  • In the complex vernacular of military euphemism, it was an inescapable summons.†  (source)
  • She could afford to slip into the vernacular became she had such eloquent command of English.†  (source)
  • A Korean man, of his age, as part of the vernacular.†  (source)
  • Kahaar relapsed into hedgerow vernacular.†  (source)
  • Isn't it fascinating how these old tales make their way into the modern vernacular?†  (source)
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