To Homer were
popularly ascribed certain burlesque poems in which Aristotle ("Poetics" iv) saw the germ of comedy.
Hence she obtained her crest, which is
popularly said to be her father's grave-hillock.
Some wanted it to be simply "my Lord," others held out for "your Dukeness," and still others preferred "my Sovereign Liege." Finally the gorgeous jewel of the order, gleaming upon the breast of every member, suggested "your Badgesty," which was adopted, and the order became
popularly known as the Kings of Catarrh.
Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities,
popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
With my head full of George Barnwell, I was at first disposed to believe that I must have had some hand in the attack upon my sister, or at all events that as her near relation,
popularly known to be under obligations to her, I was a more legitimate object of suspicion than any one else.
On the whole therefore -- although I am not ignorant that, in many
popularly elected School Boards, there is a reaction in favour of "the cheap system" as it is called -- I am myself disposed to think that this is one of the many cases in which expense is the truest economy.
What are
popularly called 'the trembles' being in full force upon him that evening, and likewise what are
popularly called 'the horrors,' he had a very bad time of it; which was not made better by his being so remorseful as frequently to moan 'Sixty threepennorths.' This imperfect sentence not being at all intelligible as a confession, but sounding like a Gargantuan order for a dram, brought him into new difficulties by occasioning his parent to pounce at him in a more than usually snappish manner, and to overwhelm him with bitter reproaches.
Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were
popularly believed, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another customer in.
We are dazzled, to speak
popularly, and cannot distinguish minutely.
They were
popularly supposed to inhabit the lesser moon, from which they descended upon Barsoom at long intervals.
Dolly had what is
popularly called a spirit of her own, and being now fairly at bay, made the best of it.
The exhibitor disappeared with all speed behind the drapery; and his partner, stationing himself by the side of the Theatre, surveyed the audience with a remarkable expression of melancholy, which became more remarkable still when he breathed a hornpipe tune into that sweet musical instrument which is
popularly termed a mouth-organ, without at all changing the mournful expression of the upper part of his face, though his mouth and chin were, of necessity, in lively spasms.