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epigrammatical



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There was a cynical old bachelor uncle, who gave the Girl epigrammatical advice about the virtue of frivolity and the danger of taking things seriously.

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards

I'm an epigrammatical Moses, Whose humorous tablets of stone Condemn affectations and poses— Excepting a few of my own.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises.

From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter

Rhetorical and epigrammatical point and vigour are the special virtues of this system: its weaknesses are monotony of beat and lack of freedom and variety in sentence structure.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin

Unpleas- antly personal, perhaps, but written with an epigrammatical point that is very rare nowadays—very rare indeed.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert


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