No circumlocution of words will add to the ending of a tale, but perhaps serve only to conceal the point.

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

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.

The study of Sir Thomas Browne, Mr. Gosse says, 'encouraged Johnson, and with him a whole school of rhetorical writers in the eighteenth century, to avoid circumlocution by the invention of superfluous words, learned but pedantic, in which darkness was concentrated without being dispelled.'

Mr. Sawyer throughout his translation substitutes vulgar Latinisms and circumlocutions for the vigorous phrases of the received version.

The essential point is that somebody must be at work adding new symbols and new circumlocutions to a language.