make allusion

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Apart from certain most cleverly devised breaks in the story—to which I shall make allusion presently—Oliver Tropenell's best chance lies in the absence of adequate motive.

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

He had often heard Miss Rogers make allusion to money she could lay her hand on at any moment; but the old basket-maker never believed her.

From Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife by Libbey, Laura Jean

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

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

If she make allusion to the Dalys, sir, take care not to confess our mistake about that cabin they called 'The Corvy,' and which you remember we discovered that Daly had settled upon his servant.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James