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Henry Erskine met his acquaintance Jemmy Ba -- four, a barrister, who dealt in hard words and circumlocutious sentences.— The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
The thought has often recurred to me -- which is the most truly pure and virginal nature, the fastidious American girl, who blushes at the sight of a pair of boots outside a gentleman's bedroom door, and who requires that certain unoffending parts of the body and articles of clothing should be designated by delicately circumlocutious terms, or the simple-minded Swedish women, who come into our bedrooms with coffee, and make our fires while we get up and dress, coming and going during all the various stages of the toilet, with the frankest unconsciousness of impropriety?— Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland
Writes columnist Norman Chad, "for Kellogg, the shortest distance between two points is a circumlocutious statement.— Latest news releases on Louisiana Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Louisiana, USA and World News
"interior" and "circumlocutious"; heck, he's got to love "multisyllabic" because, we, it's multisyllabic. "....— Latest news releases on Louisiana Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Louisiana, USA and World News
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