By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was intended.

As a periphrasis, the combination in other words is subdisjunctive.

The periphrasis is a metaphor, and thus has the same life-span as a metaphor.

As a periphrasis the combination in other words is subdisjunctive.

"Prop of sea-waves' fire," a periphrasis for a woman that bears gold on her arm.

"He that hoardeth ocean's fire," a periphrasis for man, Hauskuld of Whiteness.

He used antithesis, periphrasis, and climax with great skill.

If the sense demanded the use of such a word, a periphrasis of 'noble' words must be employed instead.

Be it remarked that this periphrasis indicated his mother; and that the bread he alluded to is made with a species of leaven.

The greatest is the making the very dispensation objected to, the periphrasis of his title.