"ambages" as an English word in his translation of Lucan. ❋ Various (1852)
He complained without ambages of mœurs Arabes in French regiments, and declared that the result of the African wars was an éffrayable débordement pédérastique, even as the vérole resulted from the Italian campaigns of that age of passion, the xvith century. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Having thus briefly anatomised the body and soul of man, as a preparative to the rest; I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended object, to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is, show his name and differences. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, &c. In this labyrinth of accidental causes, the farther I wander, the more intricate I find the passage, multae ambages, and new causes as so many by-paths offer themselves to be discussed: to search out all, were an ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was in vain that Archie, unwilling to have it thought that he had been worsted in diplomacy, argued that with these political personages, and especially with Russian political personages, the ambages were everything — that the preliminaries were in fact the whole, and that when they were arranged, the thing was done. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr Glascock had lived. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In hac re si non sit instructus D. Arthurus, aut ea sit dexteritate, vt deprehenso errore eum inuenire et castigare possit timeo ne deuias faciat ambages, tempus ilium fallat, et semiperacto negotio, � gelu pr鎜ccupetur: Aiunt enim ❋ Unknown (2003)
“Longa est fabula, longæ ambages;” this is “Caput rei.” ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
Non enim res gestae versibus comprehendendae sunt, quod longe melius historici faciunt, sed per ambages deorumque ministeria et fabulosum sententiarum tormentum praecipitandus est liber spiritus. ' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
Rapin too gives his Vote on the same side, Rien n'est, says he, plus essentiel au Poem Epique, que la Fiction; and quotes Petronius to that purpose, Per ambages, Deorumque ministeria praecipitandus est Liber ❋ Samuel Wesley (N/A)
It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some ambages, and ways of speech not common. ❋ Unknown (1909)
For all that, said the captain, I would not make myself known on the sudden, but would use some pretty ambages to bring him acquainted with me. ❋ Unknown (1909)
As I remember, some three or four days passed before I contrived to draw him into further talk; and, curiously enough, after trying him a dozen times _per ambages_ (as old Mr. Grylls would have said) and in vain, on the point of despair I succeeded with a few straight words. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
This spiritual or emotional man-and-woman-in-the-weather-house business continues; but at last, with ambages and minor peripeteias impossible to abstract, it so comes about that the great and proud ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
We have now reached, "longas per ambages," the times of Wilkins 'manhood: he was born a year later than the opening of the College which he was to rule. ❋ Unknown (1881)
He complained without ambages of murs Arabes in French regiments, and declared that the result of the African wars was an éffrayable débordement pédérastique, even as the vérole resulted from the Italian campaigns of that age of passion, the xvith century. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
Its origin is involved in obscurity: but may it not be a corruption of the Latin _ambages_, or the singular ablative _ambage_? which signifies _quibbling, subterfuge_, and that kind of conduct which is generally supposed to constitute _humbug_. ❋ Various (1852)
The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
It was in vain that Archie, unwilling to have it thought that he had been worsted in diplomacy, argued that with these political personages, and especially with Russian political personages, the ambages were everything -- that the preliminaries were in fact the whole, and that when they were arranged, the thing was done. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
The pale-faced clerk, accustomed to such documents, glanced over the ambages, the "whereases," the ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
