10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMBAGITORY»
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ambagitory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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H. To make a quotation from ' Waverley,' this subject would seem to “partake of
what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the
circumbendibus." In pursuing it we have got far away from the Strand, have
reached the ...
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Novels and Novelists: Chapters on the Waverley Novels, ...
... with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, par taking of what
scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory,! and the vulgar the circumbendibus
, will permit me." Such stuff, and expressed in such a style, is a curious
phenomenon, ...
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The archaicon: a collection of unusual, archaic English
9 AMBAGITORY AMBAGITORY : Devious; roundabout; indirect. From the Latin
ambages, "a roundabout way. " Modern English has the forms ainbage,
ambagious, etc. But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the
extent of my ...
He read long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, -in which
the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of
England, as their supreme ends, could not, by all the ambagitory expressions ...
"Ivanhoe" Author of "Waverley" (The, etc),
1826
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq
He read long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, in which
the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of
England, as their su-' preme ends, could not, by all the ambagitory expressions ...
Comment on the interpretation clause would be superfluous ; its ambagitory
phraseology, and all the difficulties of the subsequent registration, are the
necessary result of the attempt to register the quacks with the regular
practitioners of the ...
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The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign ...
Comment on the interpretation clause would be superfluous ; its ambagitory
phraseology, and all the difficulties of the subsequent registration, are the
necessary result of the attempt to register the quacks with the regular
practitioners of the ...
After one of those long ambagitory discourses which the real Cromwell is
supposed to have employed whenever he had a great object to compass, and
which, as a matter of course, his representative is made to utter on the present
occasion, ...
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The Adams Cable Codex...
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Send all telegrams until further advised to me at Ambagitory, Send all telegrams
until further advised to me here. Send full particulars by first mail. Send me letter
of ...
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Waverley, Or, 't is Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes
... brevity thatmy"n'aturalstyle of composition, partaking of what scholars call the
periphrastic andl ambagitory, and the vulgar the 'circumbendibus, Will'permit'- me
.The solemn hunting was delayed', fr'om'various causes, for about'tlire'eweeks.