circumbendibus
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Reality has to be returned to, after this long circumbendibus, though Gavroche has it already.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
Thirdly, A circumbendibus described by a few daring French dragoons, who succeeded in getting into the rear of our engineers' camp, at that time unguarded, and lightened some of the officers of their epaulettes.
From Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid
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 Bret Harte
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 W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
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 Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
And do others like it if you will take circumbendibuses for sound's sake!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle
