circumbendibus

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Reality has to be returned to, after this long circumbendibus, though Gavroche has it already.

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“Ah! you mean for us to make a circumbendibus over the ridge, and attack ’em from the back-side.

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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.

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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.

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Shakespeare is not pointing out, in 'The knave turns fool that runs away,' that the wise knave who runs away is really a 'fool with a circumbendibus,' 'moral miscalculator as well as moral coward.'

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