118 Verbs to Use for the Word allusion

He ran down the tow-path, laughing and swearing, and making confused allusion to the entire personnel and furniture of the lower regions.

Yet, in a number of Christian inscriptions exceeding eleven thousand, and all belonging to the first six centuries of our era, scarcely six have been found containing any allusion whateverand even two or three of these are doubtfulto this fundamental division of ancient Roman society.

In order to understand Shelley's allusion, I looked up the Quarterly Review from April 1817 to April 1821, and have ascertained as follows, (1) The Quarterly of April 1817 contains a notice of Paris in 1815, a Poem.

Amongst the legendary stories and folktales of most countries we find frequent allusion to the devil as an active agent in utilising various flowers for his mischievous pursuits; and on the Continent we are told of a certain evil spirit named Kleure who transforms himself into a tree to escape notice, a superstition which under a variety of forms still lingers here and there.

[Footnote 68: An allusion to the second of the two taxes mentioned in Book Fifty, chapter 10.]

Many stoppers sat at her table as the Christmas season drew near, and many times she heard allusions to her young neighbor which filled her with apprehension.

This was a work of no little ingenuity, forced as she was to avoid all allusion to her father and the scene of the morning.

This romantic incident explains innumerable allusions," e.g., I have shed Blood, but not hers,and yet her blood was shed.

Among their friends in society, Madame Clerambault and Rosine had to bear many painful allusions, small affronts, even insults.

Cases were made wrong, or not made in due time, and absences took some folks away (an allusion to the trip to Niagara), and the council would adjourn, &c. You are, however, I understand, to be down here New Year's day, to which time, for the special accommodation of the up-country members, I presume the council, as it is said, has adjourned.

In this lecture on George Eliot I gladly would have omitted all allusion to a mistake which impairs our respect for this great woman.

Fortunately for Maud, who was ready to burst into tears, the service of the tea prevented any farther allusion to the matter.

Did not the bell convey a plain allusion to the leading name on the ticket, we should conceive it an excellent type of the hollowness of those fears for the safety of the Union, in case of Mr. Lincoln's election, whose changes are so loudly rung,its noise having once or twice given rise to false alarms of fire, till people found out what it really was.

Then follows an allusion to a profound matter of temper and experience.

[Pohl quotes many allusions to him in Haydn's letters.]

It is interesting to note that many authorities, ignoring Settle and Mrs. Behn's allusions, quote Powel and Otway as the only two places where the word 'Alsatia' is found before Shadwell made it so popular.

The colonel's government must be carried on," said I. The signorina did not catch the allusion.

" To this latter proposition Sampson acquiesced with pleasure; he was delighted with the prospect of once more seeing his young shipmate, whose mysterious allusions to the Sea-flower he could now comprehend; but as to himself receiving so liberal a legacy, he was not prepared to look upon the proposition as favorably.

In the present paper I shall deal principally with the chemical department of this subject, and shall briefly introduce, where necessary, allusion to the mechanical and electrical details connected with the process.

The niece read a long account of whalers spoken, with so many hundred or so many thousand barrels of oil on board, but could discover no allusion to any sealer.

" The honest baron did not like his friend's allusions, though they were much too subtle for his ready comprehension, for the intellect of the Swiss was a little frosted by constant residence among snows and in full view of glaciers, and it wanted the volatile play of the Genoese's fancy, which was apt to expand like air rarefied by the warmth of the sun.

I heard it in Williamsburg, and saw an allusion to it in The Examiner the other day.

I can hardly consider the simple allusions to 'flight' ([Greek: pheugein], ii. 9; [Greek: taede kakeise apodedrakenai], i. 62) as necessarily references to the retreat to Ephraim in John xi.

Any one who has tried to trace out the allusions in the "Poems on the Naming of Places," or to discover the site of "Michael's Sheepfold," to identify "Ghimmer Crag," or "Thurston-Mere,"not to speak of the individual "rocks" and "recesses" near Blea Tarn at the head of Little Langdale so minutely described in 'The Excursion',will admit that local commentary is an important aid to the understanding of Wordsworth.

The expression, perhaps, is too light; but, since I have made use of it, let me add, that the entire command and power of directing the local disposition of the army is the royal prerogative, as the master-feather in the eagle's wing; and if I were permitted to carry the allusion a little farther, I would say, they have disarmed the imperial bird, the 'Ministrum fulminis alitem'.

118 Verbs to Use for the Word  allusion