circumbendibus
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Ay, to-morrow evenin'; an' if we don't give him a gauliogue that'll make him dance the circumbendibus widout music—never believe that my name's any thing else than Tom Thin, that got thick upon spring wather.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
Reality has to be returned to, after this long circumbendibus, though Gavroche has it already.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
“Ah! you mean for us to make a circumbendibus over the ridge, and attack ’em from the back-side.
From The Yellow Chief by Reid, Mayne
Footnote 1: Schalttag, lit. 'intercalary day'--used of the 29th of February in leap years--impossible to translate except by a circumbendibus.
From The Wine-ghosts of Bremen by Hauff, Wilhelm
I made a wide circumbendibus, and talked in an erudite style concerning the malady of 'Fixed Idea,' which attacks people, marring, like one single discord, the otherwise harmonious organisms.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
And do others like it if you will take circumbendibuses for sound's sake!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
