These are euphuisms to avoid speaking broadly and openly of that venerable feature, the beard. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mirror for Magistrates, or the fine-spun euphuisms of the ❋ Unknown (2002)
But it would be the weakest of euphuisms to affect ignorance of the social position which he occupies, and which, not to increase the misery of his position, is indubitably 'at the bottom of the ladder.' ❋ Various (N/A)
Philippo was so prone to jealousy, that he suspected even this paragon, and worked himself into a belief in her infidelity by such euphuisms as these: "The greener the Alisander leaves be, the more bitter is the sap, and the salamander is the most warm when he lieth furthest from the fire," therefore "women are most heart-hollow, when they are most lip-holy." ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)
He spoke of trade-unionists always as "those swine and dogs" and of the members of the Government as "those dogs and swine", -- swine and dogs being refined and temperate euphuisms for the epithets Mr. Pike actually employed. ❋ Unknown (1925)
I suppose nothing is read now-a-days but Sir Philip Sydneys Arcadia, Sackvilles stately plays, and Mirror for Magistrates, or the fine-spun euphuisms of the unparalleled John Lyly. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Hence Bielfeld goes to Hanover, to grin-out euphuisms, and make graceful court-bows to our sublime little Uncle there. ❋ Unknown (1908)
It meant that he was to die; but they dressed the truth in hopeful euphuisms, and at times, in the joy of preparation, she really forgot the purpose of their journey, and slipped into an eager allusion to next year's plans. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
Nectarius and the silken euphuisms of the corrupt and intriguing priests of ❋ 1831-1903 (1895)
Its euphemisms in reality have no baser intent than the euphuisms of Lyly, Ben Jonson, or Shakespeare. ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)
Each age has flung into the limpid waters its pretentious archaisms and euphuisms, but nothing has remained on the surface to perpetuate these futile attempts and impotent efforts. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)
But, then, the French could match the paste euphuisms of Lyly with the novels of ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
The good wives of the neighbourhood used no such euphuisms as their more prudent husbands, when they spoke of Crayshaw's. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)
Leicester, found entrance into some office in the queen's household; and he was now basking in the full sunshine of Court favor, and fair ladies 'eyes, and all the chivalries and euphuisms of Gloriana's fairyland, and the fast friendship of that bright meteor Sidney, who had returned with honor in 1577, from the delicate mission on behalf of the German and ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
Magistrates, or the fine-spun euphuisms of the ` unparalleled John ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
a wild and struggling and isolated life, — seeing few but plain and outspoken Northerns, unskilled in the euphuisms which assist the polite world to skim over the mention of vice? ❋ Unknown (2002)
a wild and struggling and isolated life, -- seeing few but plain and outspoken Northerns, unskilled in the euphuisms which assist the polite world to skim over the mention of vice? ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)
