colloquial
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For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial: we see it in the fact that conversational speech runs into iambic lines more frequently than into any other kind of verse; rarely into hexameters, and only when we drop the colloquial intonation. His rhetoric there, and in certain of his historical studies, had a sort of luminous richness, without losing its colloquial ease. As they approached the Way-lee-way, however, the communicative old chief met with another and a very different occasion to exert his colloquial powers. |
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