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 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

Divil such a circumbendibus ever a man had as I had in gettin' as far as the nose, where I had to give up until this evenin' as I said.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

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

I don’t altogether like the circumbendibus ways of that ere chap to windward.

From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.