The list of her eccentricities is far too lengthy here to be enumerated; but she began it by being born with red hairTitian reds and auburns were undiscovered euphemisms in those daysand, in Lichfield, this is not regarded as precisely a lady-like thing to do; and she ended it, as far as Lichfield was concerned, by eloping with what Lichfield in its horror could only describe, with conscious inadequacy, as "a quite unheard-of person.

" "A euphemism, as I take it, for an elopement.

Euphony, eupepsia, euphemism, euthanasia are of his retiring kindred.

She has no wish to paraphrase away St. Paul's awful words, that "in his flesh dwelleth no good thing," by the unscientific euphemisms of "fallen nature" or "corrupt humanity."

He multiplied the flourishes and exhausted all his euphemisms in describing the drooping shoulders and the tardy baptism of salad his Excellency had received on his Olympian brow, he eulogized the agility with which the General had recovered a vertical position, placing his head where his legs had been, and vice versa, then intoned a hymn to Providence for having so solicitously guarded those sacred bones.

That is the true method of eudaemonology; for all eudaemonology must begin by recognizing that its very name is a euphemism, and that to live happily only means to live less unhappilyto live a tolerable life.

The framers of the constitution disliked to tarnish the instrument by using the word slave, and adopted this euphemism.

My remarks, therefore, will possess only a qualified value, for the very word eudaemonology is a euphemism.

In the cool of the day, then (the phrase is an innocent euphemism), I climbed the hill, and after an hour or two on the plateau strolled back again, facing the sunset through a vista of moss-covered live-oaks and sweet gums.

" The Bromide's euphemisms are the slang of her caste.

The Sulphite, too, has little need for euphemisms.

It is possible that (to use the current euphemism) 'the necessity of her affairs may have obliged her to leave London and even England until creditors became less insistent.

One indignant Saint, with a talent for euphemism, was heard to say, "Brigham will have his spirit disembodied!" To the priests and Elders on the platform Elder Wardle was saying, "The trouble with him was he was crazy with fever.

The German General Staff have begun to disguise set-backs under the convenient euphemism that the situation has developed "according to expectation."

The Turks are beginning to show a gift for euphemism in disguising their reverses in the Caucasus, which shows that they have nothing to learn from their masters; Austria, badly mauled by the Serbians, addresses awful threats to Roumania; and the United States has issued a warning Note on neutral trading.

At the Front euphemism in describing hardship is mingled with circumlocution in official terminology.

Mr. Punch's correspondents at the Front have an incorrigible habit of euphemism and levity.

"Very well, then," went on the clear voice, "let us employ euphemism in terms and softness in methods.

"This figure [Euphemism] is often the same with the Periphrasis.

"This figure [Euphemism] is often the same as the Periphrasis."Adam and Gould cor.

No! I am not going to call them "eighty years young," or employ any of those banal euphemisms with which would-be "tactful" but really club-footed sentimentalists insult the intelligence of the so-called "old."

There is a currency of untruth in daily use amongst fashionable people for purposes of convenience, which proceeds to a much bolder extent than the social euphemisms by which those of the middle classes also, not perhaps without some occasional violation of their more tender consciences, intimate a wish to be excused from receiving a guest.

Doctor Jekyll did tell him that it had been found necessary to place me in "restraint" and "seclusion" (the professional euphemisms for "strait-jacket," "padded cell," etc.), but no hint was given that I had been roughly handled.

A needless euphemism affected by undertakers.

The former word is frequently used, even in laws and ordinances, as a euphemism for the latter.