Then there had been strict silence; but when the buffoon's jargon began, she had believed it was the real service, spoken by another priest, and she lay trembling and gasping for breath in unspeakable horror.
Some of her bastard Gypsy words belonged to the cant or allegorical jargon of thieves, who, in order to disguise their real meaning, call one thing by the name of another.
This man talked the jargon she hated, but she could not doubt his sincerity.
The conversation of a fanatical Methodist, the jargon of Wesley and Whitefield, their unctuous cant repeated parrot-wise by a tyro, could but move your disgust.
It was a jargonof the schools, invented to amuse idleness--the quackery of mind.
Such a condition of things, if the common jargon of high politics means anything, is preposterous.
The factors which really constitute prosperity have not the remotest connection with military or naval power, all our politicaljargon notwithstanding.
Am I wrong in saying that the whole subject is overlaid and dominated by a jargon which may have had some relation to facts at one time, but from which in our day all meaning has departed?
It was connected with various juggling tricks and deceptions, affected an obscure jargon of language, and insinuated itself into every thing in which the hopes and fears of mankind were concerned.
This is a peculiar jargon used by criminals when speaking among themselves.
Finally, there is one proper test to prove that all this jargon about "The Public" is nonsense, which is that it is altogether modern.
But the hybrid was of such a nature that a transition from this mixed jargon to the dialect, presented in a literary shape, was imminent.
You find in their pages column after column of windyjargon and tawdry rhetoric, which would consign an English editor to a madhouse.
All this jargon I answer with corresponding blarney of my own, for "have I not licked the black stone of that ancient castle?
His Highland Chief is a kind of Caliban, and speaks, like Caliban, a jargonnever spoken on earth, but full of effect for all that.
At the same time Wolsey questioned Jekin Groby, who told the same straightforward tale; and Henry explained the whole to Francis, whose comprehension of the English tongue did not quite comprise the jargon of the worthy clothier.
I have long been weary of the common jargon of poetry.
There ought to be talk of theories and emotions inspired by pictures in the inception, not merely this prosaic business of sitting down to work and characterizing beauties with a flippant jargon of words misused.
The question which I cannot solve is, On which of the Celtic languages is this jargon based?
Arriving at New York, I was not only surprised but almost bewildered by the confusing jargonof the cab drivers, hooting and wrangling to secure passengers for the hotels.
The voice of a thousand friends are dying away in the distance, while before me is a land of strangers, whose tongues will sound in my ears like the jargon of Babel.
Pass him, and say nought: For as he speaketh language known of none, So none can speak savejargon to himself.
Above all, he will deliver himself from the jargon of modern criticism, and escape the danger of producing poetical works conceived in the spirit of the passing time, and which partake of its transitoriness.
Even his German took on a winning touch of jargon in vocabulary and accentuation, though to kill the jargon was one of the ideals of his life.
How he had rejoiced to find that by help of his Jewish jargon he could worry out the meaning of some torn leaves of an old German book picked up by chance.
It was in like manner that when he lost a game of chess or waxed hot in argument, his old Judean-Polish mother jargoncame back to him.
Straightway the poet evolves a message, and as messages of this kind ought to be mysterious, the poet wraps them in a jargon as unintelligible as Garner’s monkey dialect.
This monstrous nomenclature, this jargon of miscreated things in chaos, rose as by nature to his lips, flowed from them as by instinct.
He went on talking and the three languages he used in his jargon got clotted to the point of unintelligibility.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jargon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
