circumbendibus

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 Harte, Bret

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

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)