"Circumlocution" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great heat of the sun; even the Great Mogul himself being usually clothed in a garment of pure white calico or fine muslin. Blue, being the colour of mourning, may not be worn in his presence, neither the name of death pronounced in his hearing. This circumstance is usually expressed by some circumlocution, as that such a person has sacrificed himself at the feet ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... Francine? Alban tried to make the discovery. Polite circumlocution would be evidently thrown away on Mrs. Ellmother. "Is your new mistress one of the right sort?" he ...
— I Say No • Wilkie Collins
... began the elder, without any circumlocution, "laces have been missed from your department, and suspicion rests on you. I hope ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe
... Rosanette. She thanked him for having risked his life on her behalf. Frederick did not at first understand what she meant; finally, after a considerable amount of circumlocution, while appealing to his friendship, relying on his delicacy, as she put it, and going on her knees to him on account of the pressing necessity of the case, as she wanted bread, she asked him for a loan of five ...
— Sentimental Education, Volume II - The History of a Young Man • Gustave Flaubert
... the Ten, standing strangely out amid a mass of darker matter—denunciations, sinister information, hints of intrigues; the reason for the choice of this mysterious messenger was stated in the preamble: "To the end that this may, without circumlocution, immediately reach your noble body and be acted upon in your discretion—being secretly dismissed, if this seemeth wisest in the interests of the State." It was a brief offer on the part of Girolamo Magagnati to equip ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
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