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Miriam benignly gazed—it was the perfection of indirectness.
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMESPeter talked to conceal his feelings, and, like many a man practising that indirectness, rather lost himself in the wood.
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMESThe indirectness of speech had been a shelter to her, permitting her to hint at more than she dared clothe in words.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHIt was the first time that he had confronted the fact of the indirectness of a woman's movement towards her desire.
RETURN OF THE NATIVETHOMAS HARDYThe explanation, with the usual indirectness of a Griswold, was sugared with a compliment.
THE DREAMERMARY NEWTON STANARDSuch questions leave the pupil puzzled, and usually lead to indirectness or guessing in the answer.
THE RECITATIONGEORGE HERBERT BETTSIndeed they reminded me in indirectness of a reply that a Shropshire gentleman assured me he once received from a villager.
A LEISURELY TOUR IN ENGLANDJAMES JOHN HISSEYOne is inseparable from the subtlety and difficulty of the thought or the compression and pregnant indirectness of the phrase.
FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSONHENRY A. BEERS"It certainly contains some interesting information," said our hero, with a Quaker-like indirectness of reply.
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MR. VERDANT GREEN, AN OXFORD UNDER-GRADUATECUTHBERT BEDEAnything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.
DANGEROUS DAYSMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTWORDS RELATED TO INDIRECTNESS
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