circumbendibus

Example Sentences

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And believe I will just fancy I see this place too; it sounds rather a "circumbendibus" for us this journey.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)

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

YOU know your tangled legs wouldn't take you straight up the trail, and you had to make a circumbendibus.

From The Three Partners by Harte, Bret

I then introduced them to the gibbet on Heavy-tree Heath; and from that, with a circumbendibus, I fairly lodged them in the horse-pond at the bottom of the garden.

From She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith, Oliver

Thirdly, A circumbendibus described by a few daring French dragoons, who succeeded in getting into the rear of our engineers' camp, at that time unguarded, and lightened some of the officers of their epaulettes.

From Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by Kincaid, J. (John)