periphrase
Example Sentences
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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 John Selby Watson
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 Bret Harte
Then, mindful of the presence of the children, she proceeded by means of graceful periphrase and carefully studied generalizations to a presentation of Medora's mental and spiritual attributes.
From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
It is to be noted that the age of periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Yes; it was the usual periphrase of these vulgar people.
From Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
