make allusion
Example Sentences
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Should your great-grandfather have had the misfortune to be hanged, such a person is certain, on some public occasion, to make allusion to your pedigree.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
I think the same thing may be said of the offence to which you seem to make allusion.
From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Balzac, Honoré de
To another matter with which, both literally and metaphorically, the air is filled, we must also make allusion.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
I refer with pleasure to those portions of his report which make allusion to the creditable degree of discipline already attained by our troops and to the excellent sanitary condition of the entire army.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Lincoln, Abraham
This extraordinary phenomenon, it is now generally known, has been completely elucidated through the discoveries of Von Reichenbach, to which, in a former letter, I had occasion to make allusion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various