make allusion

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If she make allusion to the Dalys, sir, take care not to confess our mistake about that cabin they called 'The Corvy,' and which you remember we discovered that Daly had settled upon his servant.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Only once did Marguerite make allusion to that terrible time which had become the past.

From The Elusive Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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

We all remember that it was a point of etiquette inculcated in our youth never to make allusion to the furniture and fittings of the houses where we paid visits.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various

Thus even of the Giulietta, to whom I have adverted above, I have heard only casual mention by himself, and to this tender topic he would not suffer even his oldest friends to make allusion.

From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton