equivoque
Example Sentences
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Over this equivoque Dobbin shook a baffled head; and Lucinda laughed, glanced carelessly toward the stage to make sure that the act still was young, and offered to rise.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
Aberdonian pronunciation produced on one occasion a curious equivoque between the minister and a mother of a family with whom he was conversing in a pastoral way.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
Angioletto took the equivoque with dignity, "I have perfect confidence in my wife, my lord Duke."
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
I tell thee, that if thou intendest an equivoque, the Greek word whereby thou affirmest that Croesus should overthrow a great empire, was ill-chosen; and that it could signify nothing but Croesus conquering Cyrus.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
My dear mother's countenance fell, and I could hardly pursue my wicked equivoque any further.
From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
