make allusion
Example Sentences
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All travellers speak of the Cagots, and make allusion to them, but nothing very positive is told.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart
When he beheld his brother after the return of reason, he addressed him as Mr. Holden, and never, in conversation with any one, did he make allusion to his aberration of mind.
From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill
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 Smith, Alexander
I refer with pleasure to those portions of his report which make allusion to the creditable degree of discipline already attained by our troops and to the excellent sanitary condition of the entire army.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Lincoln, Abraham
This extraordinary phenomenon, it is now generally known, has been completely elucidated through the discoveries of Von Reichenbach, to which, in a former letter, I had occasion to make allusion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various