#original_high_speech
Here is another extract of high-style language from 'Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog' by Gerome K. Gerome. This piece also comes from Chapter 6 and is shorter than the previous one but no less profuse in stylish language. Have a look at the glossary and enjoy the reading!

Supportive glossary:
🔹revelry – кутёж
🔹moorings – швартовы
🔹gallant – щёголь
🔹to swagger down – сходить
🔹water steps – ступеньки, ведущие к воде
🔹gadzooks! – чёрт возьми!
🔹gramercy – ну и ну!; боже мой!
🔹borough – городок
🔹courtier – придворный
🔹gay – задорный
🔹to clank – лязгать, бряцать
🔹to prance – горцевать
🔹palfrey – иноходец, парадный конь
🔹to rustle – шелестеть
🔹oriel – эркер
🔹latticed – закрытый решёткой
🔹gabled – стрельчатый, остроконечный
🔹hose – штаны в обтяжку, лосины
🔹doublet – камзол
🔹pearl-embroidered – вышитый жемчугом
🔹stomacher – корсаж

Years later, to the crash of battle-music, Saxon kings and Saxon revelry were buried side by side, and Kingston’s greatness passed away for a time, to rise once more when Hampton Court became the palace of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and the royal barges strained at their moorings on the river’s bank, and bright-cloaked gallants swaggered down the water-steps to cry: “What Ferry, ho! Gadzooks, gramercy.”

Many of the old houses, round about, speak very plainly of those days when Kingston was a royal borough, and nobles and courtiers lived there, near their King, and the long road to the palace gates was gay all day with clanking steel and prancing palfreys, and rustling silks and velvets, and fair faces. The large and spacious houses, with their oriel, latticed windows, their huge fireplaces, and their gabled roofs, breathe of the days of hose and doublet, of pearl-embroidered stomachers, and complicated oaths. They were upraised in the days “when men knew how to build.” The hard red bricks have only grown more firmly set with time, and their oak stairs do not creak and grunt when you try to go down them quietly.

The High Speech

#original_high_speech
Here is another extract of high-style language from 'Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing of the Dog' by Gerome K. Gerome. This piece also comes from Chapter 6 and is shorter than the previous one but no less profuse in stylish language. Have a look at the glossary and enjoy the reading!

Supportive glossary:
🔹revelry – кутёж
🔹moorings – швартовы
🔹gallant – щёголь
🔹to swagger down – сходить
🔹water steps – ступеньки, ведущие к воде
🔹gadzooks! – чёрт возьми!
🔹gramercy – ну и ну!; боже мой!
🔹borough – городок
🔹courtier – придворный
🔹gay – задорный
🔹to clank – лязгать, бряцать
🔹to prance – горцевать
🔹palfrey – иноходец, парадный конь
🔹to rustle – шелестеть
🔹oriel – эркер
🔹latticed – закрытый решёткой
🔹gabled – стрельчатый, остроконечный
🔹hose – штаны в обтяжку, лосины
🔹doublet – камзол
🔹pearl-embroidered – вышитый жемчугом
🔹stomacher – корсаж

Years later, to the crash of battle-music, Saxon kings and Saxon revelry were buried side by side, and Kingston’s greatness passed away for a time, to rise once more when Hampton Court became the palace of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and the royal barges strained at their moorings on the river’s bank, and bright-cloaked gallants swaggered down the water-steps to cry: “What Ferry, ho! Gadzooks, gramercy.”

Many of the old houses, round about, speak very plainly of those days when Kingston was a royal borough, and nobles and courtiers lived there, near their King, and the long road to the palace gates was gay all day with clanking steel and prancing palfreys, and rustling silks and velvets, and fair faces. The large and spacious houses, with their oriel, latticed windows, their huge fireplaces, and their gabled roofs, breathe of the days of hose and doublet, of pearl-embroidered stomachers, and complicated oaths. They were upraised in the days “when men knew how to build.” The hard red bricks have only grown more firmly set with time, and their oak stairs do not creak and grunt when you try to go down them quietly.

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