periphrase
Example Sentences
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But her further questioning was met with a frank, amiable, and simple brevity that was as puzzling as the most artful periphrase of tact.
From By Shore and Sedge by Bret Harte
The mot propre, the calling of a spade a spade, was the great commandment of Romanticism; but it must be allowed that what was taken away in periphrase was made up in adjectives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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
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
Yes; it was the usual periphrase of these vulgar people.
From Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
