Thus we combine valour with prudence-a mixture which is more colloquially known as 'business.
"Swirling Waters"
Max Rittenberg
As we turned away they were performing another delicate and complicated operation which was not carried through without some plaintive expostulation from the N.C.O. "It reminds me," remarked the Major colloquially, as we strolled away, "of Falstaff drilling his recruits.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
His want of means-of means sufficient for anyone but himself-was really the great ugliness, and was, moreover, at no time more ugly for him than when it rose there, as it did seem to rise, shameless, face to face with the elements in Kate's life colloquially and conveniently classed by both of them as funny.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James