circumbendibus

Example Sentences

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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

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

I’m goin’ to ask one of you fellers to ride away up north and foller them sheepmen down, so they can’t come a circumbendibus on us again.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

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

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