28 Words to use with roundabout

Bredwel then in his satanic masquerade meets Gayman, and bringing him a roundabout way, introduces him into Sir Cautious' house, where, after having been entertained with a masque of dances and songs as by spirits, he is conducted to Lady Fulbank's chamber by her maid disguised as an ancient crone, and admitted to his mistress' embraces.

Later that afternoon, he took a roundabout route shopping and walked out to Crescent Beach.

Being come within sight of the house, he turned aside, and forcing his way through a gap in the hedge, came by a roundabout course to the farm-yard.

Roy Blakeley's roundabout hike.

" "You took a roundabout road," said I, by no means appeased.

JOHNNY CROW'S PARTY JOHNNY CROW'S NEW GARDEN THE GOLDEN GOOSE BOOK The Three Little Pigs Tom Thumb The Golden Goose The Three Bears RING O' ROSES A Collection of Old Nursery Rhymes THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD, and other Old Fairy Stories A ROUNDABOUT TURN By Robert H. Charles THE NURSERY RHYME BOOK Edited by Andrew Lang

Although Presburg was only six hours' journey from Vienna, the route had been made so difficult that the news of anything done in the Hungarian Diet had hitherto reached Vienna in a roundabout manner, and had sometimes been a week on its way.

Diffuseness N. diffuseness &c adj.; amplification &c v.; dilating &c v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]; flow of words &c (loquacity) 584; looseness. Polylogy^, tautology, battology^, perissology^; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages^; periphrase^, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c 577.

"He was a tall, gaunt young man," Mr. Roll said, "dressed in a suit of blue homespun jeans, consisting of a roundabout jacket, waistcoat, and breeches which came to within about four inches of his feet.

Or again, in another way, when a definition is held down to a single word, or when expressions borrowed from something else are banished, or made use of in a roundabout sense, or when one word is made up out of two.

In this way he absorbed not only turpentine, but also, in a roundabout sort of way, a whole pharmacopoeia of medicines made from this particular element.

It was the age in which Dr. Price was a great authority on public finance, the age of Mr. Pitt's sinking fund, when borrowed money was repaid with further borrowings; so that a corresponding roundabout method for manning the navy may have had attractions for some people.

Certainly, my Baronite, reading the fascinating record of a roundabout tour, feels prompted to steal away.

You did drive him away, only in a roundabout fashion.

I asked 'im one eveningin a roundabout wayand he answered in such a long, roundabout way that I didn't know wot to make of it till I see that she was standing just behind me, listening.

EXERCISE - Wordiness II 1. Condense the editorial (Appendix 1) by eliminating unnecessary words and finding briefer equivalents for roundabout expressions.

Haught said he would send his son Edd with Doyle, and by a long roundabout forest road get the wagon up on the mesa.

But on receiving an authentic though roundabout intimation that a new mission would have a friendly reception, he concluded to dispense with direct assurances, and, without consulting his Cabinet, sent a message to the Senate on February 18, 1799, nominating Murray, then American Minister to Holland, to be Minister to France.

From the very first the Government committed the fatal blunder of letting the rebels slowly proceed to the Citadela fortified military arsenalthe retention of which was of paramount importance, without even attempting to intercept their roundabout march or to frustrate their belated entry into the poorly guarded Citadel.

The stepmother, for whom Fate had been circumvented by this device of adoption, looked up to the boy and rejoiced in her roundabout motherhood, and Miss Murtree declared that he was a perfect little gentleman.

The roundabout nature of much of this competition does not impair one whit the inevitability of this result.

"I think I'll leave you here, Miller," said Watson, as they approached the outskirts, "and make my way home by a roundabout path, as I should like to get there unmolested.

ROUNDABOUT RAMBLERS IN LANDS OF FACT AND FANCY.

He little knew by what a roundabout succession of cause and effect his father's kindness to Spelman was at this moment returning to him, one of the links of connection being this project of Willie's own.

But they'd had him going for a minutewhen the only meaning he could get from Harvey D.'s roundabout talk was that the old girl of yesterday had misunderstood his attentions.

28 Words to use with  roundabout