periphrase
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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
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
And also tell me frankly, without periphrase, what the Musik- Verein wishes and expects from the patronage of the Grand Duke of Weimar?—One ought not to shoot about at random with Royal Highnesses!
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Constance Bache
In writing of his version of the Odyssey to Ellis, Morris said: ‘My translation is a real one so far, not a mere periphrase of the original as all the others are.’
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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
