circumbendibus

Example Sentences

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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

It was not for an hour afterwards--I needed a long circumbendibus before I could take heart to bring this melancholy business to an end--that I found myself knocking at Sebastian's door.

From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul

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

I’m goin’ to ask one of you fellers to ride away up north and foller them sheepmen down, so they can’t come a circumbendibus on us again.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard