Alas, for that soft, melodious circumlocution, "Our PECULIAR species of property!"

Later, when dinner was finished, Carnacki snugged himself comfortably down in his big chair, along with his pipe, and began his story, with very little circumlocution: "As Dodgson was remarking just now, I've only been away a short time, and for a very good reason tooI've only been away a short distance.

But as a name for one single opinion, not a set of opinionsto denote the recognition of utility as a standard, not any particular way of applying itthe term supplies a want in the language, and offers, in many cases, a convenient mode of avoiding tiresome circumlocution.

; nevertheless in order to obey you,' &c., and other similarly tedious and stupid circumlocutions; but enter promptly on the subject, as far as possible, with moderate boldness; then continue to the end without hesitation.

He regarded Latin as the only language worthy of a great work; but the world neglected his Latin to seize upon his English,marvelous English, terse, pithy, packed with thought, in an age that used endless circumlocutions.

This entire avoidance of flattering circumlocutions, though it sometimes produces these rather startling effects, gives a peculiar raciness to rustic oratory.

In every-day speech we are obliged to distinguish by elaborate circumlocution between a man's place of residence and that larger and truer life,his sphere of sympathies.

Read it!' Relieved of much detail and much cumbersome legal circumlocution, it was to the following effect:That about three months ago Mr. Burnett had come up from his place in Sussex, and at the offices of Messrs. Grandly & Co. had made a will, in which he had disinherited his adopted daughter, Miss Emily Watson, and left everything to Mr. Hubert Price.

He knew this quarrel was none the less rancorous for having been couched in the queer circumlocution of black folk.

Principles which the most hardened ruffian would scarcely hint to his most trusted accomplice, or avow without the disguise of some palliating sophism even to his own mind, are professed without the slightest circumlocution, and assumed as the fundamental axioms of all political science.

Skate vigorously; then your heart will beat true, your cheeks will bloom, your appointed lover will see your beautiful soul shining through your beautiful face, he will tell you so, and after sufficient circumlocution he will Pop, you will accept, and your lives will glide sweetly as skating on virgin ice to silver music.

It contains three hundred acres, and by the artful circumlocution of the paths, and the undulations, and the skilfully interposed clumps of trees, is made to appear limitless.

Indeed, I think I may almost say that I have practically...yes, indeed, it amounts to that.' He spoke in a thinly fluting voice, with a preciseness of enunciation akin to the more feebly clerical, and with smiles which became almost lachrymose in their expressiveness as he dropped from phrase to phrase of embarrassed circumlocution.