make allusion
Example Sentences
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Only once did Marguerite make allusion to that terrible time which had become the past.
From The Elusive Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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
He admitted that painting might represent an action, but only by means of bodies which make allusion to it; that poetry can represent bodies, but only by means of actions.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
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
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 Schindler, Anton
