Do not interlard your conversation with scraps of foreign language. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
The walls dividing continents are breaking down; everywhere European, Asiatic and African will interlard. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter] Reference
I wonder if it is necessary that I pause here, just an instant, and interlard a remark regarding the scene through which I have just traced "Dodd" Weaver. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Dodd] Reference
This was “fisking,” 17th-century-style: a form of argument beloved by bloggers who cut-and-paste something that offends them and then interlard it with commentary. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing new in black & white « BuzzMachine] Reference
I told her that I well knew that to meet the public taste it was necessary to interlard fiction with risqué things in order to make it sell, but that it was my earnest hope she would in future resist this temptation. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
To Chaucer, however, are we indebted for the first effort to emancipate the British muse from the ridiculous trammels of French diction, with which, till his time, it had been the fashion to interlard and obscure the English language. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829] Reference
The "Observer" whose comments interlard and conclude the. From Wordnik.com. [The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead for Causing a Tumult at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey in London the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th of September 1670] Reference
She likes to interlard her conversation with French words. From Wordnik.com. [Redemption and two other plays] Reference
He did not play upon words as a habit, nor did he interlard his talk with far-fetched or overstrained witticisms. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
If they hear them interlard their conversation with by-words and oaths, they will be strongly tempted to do the same. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes for Boys] Reference
So Ernest sat down once more at the table by the window, and began to interlard the manuscript with such allusions to Italy and the. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
You gradually began to know her, in fact, when you first began to interlard your letters with conceited revelations about yourself. From Wordnik.com. [In Luck at Last] Reference
Therefore it would be mere affectation to copy the later orthography of Chaucer, or to interlard one's sentences with obsolete words. From Wordnik.com. [Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference
I interlard my conversation at home with easy quotations from that poet, and impress Captain Nutter with a lofty notion of my learning. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Bad Boy] Reference
Socrates, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and St Vincent de Paul are equally honored and in the sermon where political harangues interlard moral exhortations. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
And as he talked he began to interlard his English with bits of German, the language to which his tongue had accustomed itself in the past ten years. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
More than by the tone was Andre-Louis startled by the obscenities with which the Colossus did not hesitate to interlard his first speech to a total stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Scaramouche] Reference
He was, in fact, a Frenchman, though his language would hardly have betrayed him, unless, as sometimes, he chose to interlard his discourse with French phrases. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Prescott's Charge] Reference
But if he knows these theories, he should keep his knowledge strictly in the background and never interlard his descriptions of facts with digressions into an alien province. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
She would talk of books, choosing such books as her cousin did not read; and she would interlard her conversation with much Italian, because her cousin did not know the language. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
She would talk of books, -- choosing such books as her cousin did not read; and she would interlard her conversation with much Italian, because her cousin did not know the language. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
She would talk of books, — choosing such books as her cousin did not read; and she would interlard her conversation with much Italian, because her cousin did not know the language. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds]
Nor is the future alone insecure: even now the prophets hardly understand one another, or perhaps themselves; and some of them interlard their science with the most dubious metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays] Reference
Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories] Reference
One of the other members says, 'His speeches were singularly free from the bombast and incongruous matter with which Eton orators from fifteen to eighteen are apt to interlard their declamations. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]
Those simple and definite facts were these: I had published an article in this magazine, with you for my subject; just you yourself; I stuck strictly to that one subject, and did not interlard any other. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Paul Bourget] Reference
Those who addict themselves to it, and interlard their discourse with oaths, can never be considered as gentlemen; they are generally people of low education, and are unwelcome in what is called good company. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
It needed no apology then, but in sending it to our American friends, we were obliged to explain that though the Irish peasants interlard their conversation with saints, angels, and devils, and use the name of the. From Wordnik.com. [Penelope's Irish Experiences] Reference
Therefore Miss Greeby, and with every reason, was disappointed, and when the queen of the woodland spoke she was still more so, for Mother Cockleshell did not even interlard her English speech with Romany words, as did Chaldea. From Wordnik.com. [Red Money] Reference
You’ve been told not to interlard your scenes with long encyclopedia articles of information, commonly called data-dumps. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: the Dreaded Data-Dump] Reference
African will interlard ", our country would stand out among the nations as the one country in the world that would succeed to build. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter] Reference
"fisking," 17th-century-style: a form of argument beloved by bloggers who cut-and-paste something that offends them and then interlard it with commentary. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
As for the reflections of historians, with which they think it necessary to interlard their histories, or at least to conclude their chapters (and which, in the. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Word of the Week #98 - interlard. From Wordnik.com. [Recommended Reading: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith] Reference
Comics interlard - vt., to intersperse; diversify. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 5] Reference
We interlard the lecture by speeches to the one who sits next us; we supply what has been poorly heard by us; and enlarge it by our own mistakes of orthography and sentiment. ". From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
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