"To tell the truth, if the boys must have slang, I can bear the 'sea
lingo,' as Will calls it, better than the other.
“Look you, Mistress Pitty—Patty Prettybones, mayhap I’m some such matter as a bear, as they will find who come to grapple with me; but dam’me if I’m a monkey— a thing that chatters without knowing a word of what it says—a parrot; that will hold a dialogue, for what an honest man knows, in a dozen languages; mayhap in the Bay of State
lingo; mayhap in Greek or High Dutch.
Paloma was the first to talk, in his own
lingo, for he talked back to her.
As he mounted the deck, ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken
lingo, the German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness --his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a clean one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name of Jungfrau or the Virgin.
"I don't exactly hold no certificates on French, but I know another
lingo that goes, I guess.
They preferred to stand together and jabber all night in their queer Sikh
lingo. For myself, I used to stand outside the gate-way, looking down on the broad, winding river and on the twinkling lights of the great city.
The
lingo was rippling from Leith's lips, but perforce I stopped him.
You'll pass for Whitechapel if the worst comes to the worst and you don't forget to talk the
lingo. Better sulk like a mule if you're not sure of it, and leave the dialogue to me; but, please our stars, there will be no need.
But all those people had heard a prophecy of Napoleon, under the name of Kebir Bonaberdis; a word which in our
lingo means, 'The Sultan fires a shot,' and they feared him like the devil.
She's no use: I've got all the records I want of the Lisson Grove
lingo; and I'm not going to waste another cylinder on it.
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