circumbendibus

Example Sentences

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Well, with much ado, and a great circumbendibus, and floods of tears, and all sorts of deprecations and confusions, out came the murder at last.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Footnote 1: Schalttag, lit. 'intercalary day'--used of the 29th of February in leap years--impossible to translate except by a circumbendibus.

From The Wine-ghosts of Bremen by Hauff, Wilhelm

YOU know your tangled legs wouldn't take you straight up the trail, and you had to make a circumbendibus.

From The Three Partners by Harte, Bret

Ay, to-morrow evenin'; an' if we don't give him a gauliogue that'll make him dance the circumbendibus widout music—never believe that my name's any thing else than Tom Thin, that got thick upon spring wather.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

I don’t altogether like the circumbendibus ways of that ere chap to windward.

From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.