make allusion
Example Sentences
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Should your great-grandfather have had the misfortune to be hanged, such a person is certain, on some public occasion, to make allusion to your pedigree.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
It won't hurt them, my lord; and people make allusion to everything now-a-days.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
We all remember that it was a point of etiquette inculcated in our youth never to make allusion to the furniture and fittings of the houses where we paid visits.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various
Thus even of the Giulietta, to whom I have adverted above, I have heard only casual mention by himself, and to this tender topic he would not suffer even his oldest friends to make allusion.
From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler
To another matter with which, both literally and metaphorically, the air is filled, we must also make allusion.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
