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In other words, what we have here, periphrastically, is a failure to communicant.— Right Truth
Pass. are often inflected periphrastically (especially in the Opt.— Greek in a Nutshell
The words can only be rendered periphrastically.— Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
Ladies, "a mill," -- using with reluctance and contempt for myself that slang in which ladywriters indulge, and Girls of the Period know much better than they do their Murray, -- "a mill," -- speaking not to ladywriters, not to Girls of the Period, but to innocent damsels, and in explanation to those foreigners who only understand the English language as taught by Addison and Macaulay, -- a "mill" periphrastically means this: your adversary, in the noble encounter between fist and fist, has so plunged his head that it gets caught, as in a vice, between the side and doubled left arm of the adversary, exposing that head, unprotected and helpless, to be pounded out of recognizable shape by the right fist of the opponent.— Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 02
This it is whose enemies he so vigorously combats -- the frivolous ignoramuses who have no soul for anything but debauchery; the sophistical theologian to whom Helicon, the Castalian fountain, and the grove of Apollo were foolishness; the greedy lawyers, to whom poetry was a superfluity, since no money was to be made by it; finally the mendicant friars, described periphrastically, but clearly enough, who made free with their charges of paganism and immorality.— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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