periphrase

Example Sentences

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So far as consistent with due precision, popular terms have been used in description, but not when such usage involved tedious periphrase.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

Yet it is difficult to conceive why Sallust should have used such a periphrase for centuriones.

From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by Watson, John Selby

But her further questioning was met with a frank, amiable, and simple brevity that was as puzzling as the most artful periphrase of tact.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret

Leaving out the delicate and difficult periphrase by which her mother's shame would have to be explained to an innocent school-girl—what right could he have assumed to tell it?

From A Ward of the Golden Gate by Harte, Bret

Yes; it was the usual periphrase of these vulgar people.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)