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 Watson, John Selby

It is to be noted that the age of periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Yes; it was the usual periphrase of these vulgar people.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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 Harte, Bret

But her further questioning was met with a frank, amiable, and simple brevity that was as puzzling as the most artful periphrase of tact.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret