He tried by circumlocution to get at the point he wanted, namely, Mrs. Hazeldene's mental condition lately.

Subtlest truths, which would have taken philosophers pages of circumlocution and big words to state, were dropped out by the way in a sentence or two of the most transparent Saxon."

Indeed, that most general one, WHAT IS, IS, may serve sometimes to show a man the absurdity he is guilty of, when, by circumlocution or equivocal terms, he would in particular instances deny the same thing of itself; because nobody will so openly bid defiance to common sense, as to affirm visible and direct contradictions in plain words; or, if he does, a man is excused if he breaks off any further discourse with him.

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

Each day, without allowing themselves to be intimidated, either by menaces of forcible suppression or threats of arrest, they have fearlessly told the members of the Commune their opinion without concealment or circumlocution.

The paucity of terms leads not only to the use of figures and metaphors, but is the cause of circumlocution.

This gentleman brought me official dispatches relative to his mission and the expenditures of it, and, by his ready and prompt mode of acting and speaking, led me to call to mind another class of visitors, who seem to aim by extreme formality and circumlocution to strive to hide want of capacity and narrow-mindedness.

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

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

By the time you have got a group of committees, independent of one another and working at cross purposes, you have got Dickens's famous Circumlocution Office, where the great object in life was "how not to do it.

"'No circumlocution,' rejoined the soldier, sternly.

Charles Reade himself does not condense with a more fretful impatience of all circumlocution and a profounder reliance on the absolute import of single words.

It was now inevitable that she should report the state of things to her husband, and that evening half an hour's circumlocution brought her to the point.

"Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to the other parts of speech.

"PERIPHRASIS, or CIRCUMLOCUTION, is the use of several words, to express what might be said in fewer.

First he copies Lowth's doctrine, literally and anonymously, from the Doctor's 17th page, thus: "When the thing to which another is said to belong, is expressed by a circumlocution, or by many terms, the sign of the possessive case is commonly added to the last term: as, 'The king of Great Britain's dominions.

Monsieur de Langevy, who was not addicted to circumlocution in his mode of talk, told his son point-blank, that his cousin was a pretty girl, and what was more, a considerable heiressso that it was his dutyhis, Hector de Langevythe owner of a great name and a very small fortune, to marry the said cousinor if not, he must stand the consequences.

We can only name them by a circumlocution.

" The promptness of Babar's administrative methods is a striking contrast to the circumlocution of present-day departmentalism.

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.

The terms are sufficiently explicit, and have the advantage of enabling us to avoid circumlocution, and I shall, therefore, adopt them.

" Chiffield continued: "To save any further circumlocution, sir, and in order that we may fully understand each other, I will say at once, that we are completelyruined!" "Ha!

Quiet ruled in the Ridgeley cottage, rarely broken, save when Julia galloped up and made a pleasant little call, had a game of romps with George, a few quick words with Edward; an enquiry, or adroit circumlocution, would bring out Bart's name, which the young lady would hear with the most innocent air in the world.

He is entirely free from that circumlocution and involved style which makes so much diplomatic correspondence almost worthless.

" As the 'Skimmer of the Seas' thus spoke, he drew, with the calmness of a man who saw no use in circumlocution, a heavy bag of gold from beneath his frock, and deposited it, without a second look at the treasure, on the table.