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circumlocution
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    "Sir," said Madame de Saint-Meran, without using any circumlocution, and as if fearing she had no time to lose, "you wrote to me concerning the marriage of this child?"†  (source)
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    Mr. Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution.†  (source)
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    Too much furniture, too much room, too much emotional refinement, too many circumlocutions.†  (source)
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    Once there I performed my small ritual — the circumlocution of the monument, the reading of the names.†  (source)
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    She lowered her eyes, tapping out the letter, not for a moment fazed by the stark information which she knew lay embalmed beneath Hoss's final circumlocutions: "Special Action,"†  (source)
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    Direct, without game, not even nickel phrases of circumlocution.†  (source)
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    When it came to the forms of address, he would substitute the oddest circumlocutions—that is, if he could not slur over them entirely.†  (source)
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    Servants of God, and watchers of the temple, I am here to inform you, without circumlocution: The Archbishop is in England, and is close outside the city.†  (source)
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    I am so deeply ashamed now to say that I was embarrassed to acknowledge it in front of the others and used circumlocutions.†  (source)
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    She had a good honest glance and used no circumlocution.†  (source)
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    Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.†  (source)
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    There his wife, nearly twenty-six years ago, had broken to him, with a blushing circumlocution that would have caused the young women of the new generation to smile, the news that she was to have a child; and there their eldest boy, Dallas, too delicate to be taken to church in midwinter, had been christened by their old friend the Bishop of New York, the ample magnificent irreplaceable Bishop, so long the pride and ornament of his diocese.†  (source)
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    I gave up and put the matter baldly; I was much too tired for delicacy or circumlocutions.†  (source)
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