What was once whispered in the secret chamber of council is now proclaimed upon the housetops; what was once done by indirection and guile is now carried with the high hand, in the face of day, at the mouth of the cannon and by the edge of the sabre of the nation.

But his indirections speak straight enough.

Yetwill it be credited?more than one of us read it so hurriedly, perhaps with so passionate a longing to have it the truth, as not to perceive its satirical indirections.

But he went no farther than the City Hotel; and here one may note a further contrivance of indirection on the part of our attending Fates.

Even when he lied we were not deceived; truth can be stated by indirection.

That lady at first looked blank, as she always did in the presence of any humour couched with the least indirection, and then drew back her chin and caught her lower lip in her gold-filled teeth.

"What did you wish to see me about?"with a use of the past tense as connoting something of indirection and hence of delicacya nicety customary, yet unconscious.

The repudiation, though by indirection, was none the less evident in the recognition in the President's plan of the primacy of the Great Powers through giving to them a permanent majority on the "Executive Council" which body substantially controlled the activities of the League.

She flies pursuit, she is shy, and wild, and timid, and will be best wooed by indirection.

And thus doe we of wisedome and of reach With windlesses, and with assaies of Bias, By indirections finde directions out: So by my former Lecture and aduice Shall you my Sonne; you haue me, haue you not? Reynol.

I bethink me that a thin withered straw is in Scotland called a windlestrae: perhaps such straws were thrown up to find out 'by indirection' the direction of the wind.

The girl suddenly began trembling, now that her last reserve of indirection had been torn away.

At best, however, this seems to me but an indifferent substitute, an inadequate "extra," doing limitedly the real work of education by indirection.

On the other hand, much can be accomplished by indirection, and by this I mean the buildings and the grounds and the cultural adjuncts that are offered by any school or college.

Practically it is immaterial whether aggressive interference between the States or deliberate refusal on the part of any one of them to comply with constitutional obligations arise from erroneous conviction or blind prejudice, whether it be perpetrated by direction or indirection.

By indirection she obtained a description of Claghorn, so that he might not escape her if he came in.

"Mr. Meigs, there is nothing to be gained by indirection.

I say with Brutus, verbis paulo mutatis "By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to plant In the kind bosom of a friend a thorn, By any indirection.

Culture comes, in a sense, by indirection, a man absorbs it and furnishes the conditions for its growth, but he cannot receive it directly from his teachers.

But thus both he and Anna unwittingly put the finishing touch upon that change of heart in the General which Flora, by every subtlety of indirection, this hour and more in the carriage, had been bringing about.

Indirections: for those who want to write.

Indirections: for those who want to write.

Faint clews and indirections: manuscripts of Walt Whitman and his family.

What she does must be done by indirection and under disguise.

Only a few hintsa few diffused faint clues and indirections I seek ... to trace out here.