periphrase

Example Sentences

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But her further questioning was met with a frank, amiable, and simple brevity that was as puzzling as the most artful periphrase of tact.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret

It is to be noted that the age of periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

And also tell me frankly, without periphrase, what the Musik- Verein wishes and expects from the patronage of the Grand Duke of Weimar?—One ought not to shoot about at random with Royal Highnesses!

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Bache, Constance

So far as consistent with due precision, popular terms have been used in description, but not when such usage involved tedious periphrase.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

In writing of his version of the Odyssey to Ellis, Morris said: ‘My translation is a real one so far, not a mere periphrase of the original as all the others are.’

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster