By a slight inclination of the head the Count signified that he was quite willing to accept this euphemism.

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

therefore, redundant. VERTUCHOUX, written usually vertuchou, 'Bless me,' A euphemism like vertubleu, which is similarly a corruption of vertu (de) Dieu.

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

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.

"No, no; nothing of that kind," I answered with a smile as I interpreted the euphemism; for "something unpleasant," in the case of a young and reasonably presentable medical man is ordinarily the equivalent of trouble with the female of his species.

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.

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.