circumbendibus

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Well, with much ado, and a great circumbendibus, and floods of tears, and all sorts of deprecations and confusions, out came the murder at last.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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.

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

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