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The last expresses, with a sublime colloquiality in which the commonest words of every-day parlance seem cut anew; and are made to shine with a fresh and novel lustre, the idea and destiny of America.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

Of a correspondent's "strictures on my English" he writes: "I have a tendency towards too great colloquiality."

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert

I have a tendency towards too great colloquiality, I know, and I trust your sense of English better than any man's in the country.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William