Excerpt from A Collection of Colloquial Phrases, on Every Topic Necessary to Maintain Conversation: Arranged Under Different Heads; With Numerous Remarks on the Peculiar Pronunciations and Use of Various Words This little work, which it is hoped will be found to answer the end for which it has been compiled, is composed of the phrases most select and most necessary to maintain a conversation; part of which have been written by the author, and the rest culled by him from other works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.