Thesaurus / prolix
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When they stopped for lack of breath, Master Baptist would ask questions, which usually called forth prolix replies.
THE SURPRISES OF LIFEGEORGES CLEMENCEAUIt is prolix, and in many parts whimsical; but contains some of the boldest reasonings to be found in print.
LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF DAVID HUME, VOLUME II (OF 2)JOHN HILL BURTONI grant that they deck Nature with somewhat too prolix a grace; but is beauty always best seen in deshabille?
EUGENE ARAM, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTONBaha's style is rhetorical, verbose, prolix, but with a certain strength.
BAHAISM AND ITS CLAIMSSAMUEL GRAHAM WILSONThis excuse may serve in lieu of a better for the somewhat prolix method in which these rules are presented.
BALLADES AND RONDEAUS, CHANTS ROYAL, SESTINAS, VILLANELLES, ETC,VARIOUSOf the other islands of this archipelago no mention is made, to avoid being prolix, although there are a great number of them.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898EMMA HELEN BLAIRPerhaps I shall not be deemed prolix if I dwell with some particularity upon an occasion so historic.
MARSE HENRY (VOL. 1)HENRY WATTERSONThe Republican platform was not prolix or very specific, but on general principles it took a positive stand.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN HISTORY, 1877-1913CHARLES A. BEARDHe says I brought my afflictions on myself by writing too prolix letters several hours a day.
JULIANA HORATIA EWING AND HER BOOKSHORATIA K. F. EDENHere, too, lived a good old man and prolix poet, a friend of Tennyson.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, VOL. 12, NO. 32, NOVEMBER, 1873VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO PROLIX
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