"Periphrasis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saints, or open hints to the devil came roaring from him, that hilarious mouth of his invited you to share delights. You had needs laugh with him, and he, cursing high and low, beamed all over his face. "To make Baldassare laugh" became a stock periphrasis for the supreme degree of tragedy among his neighbours. About this traitor mouth of his he had a dew of scrubby beard, silvered black; he had bushy eyebrows, hands and arms covered with a black pelt: he was a very hairy man. Also ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... part. be, as myndgiend wre here, is comparatively rare in original A.-S. literature, but occurs abundantly in translations from the Latin. The periphrasis is ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.
... economy; and has been, by the cowardice of our old translators, so maimed of its vitality, that the frank Greek assertion of St. Michael's not daring to blaspheme the devil,[96] is tenfold more mischievously deadened and caricatured by their periphrasis of "durst not bring against him a railing accusation," than by Byron's apparently—and only apparently—less reverent description of the manner of angelic encounter for an ...
— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin
... a periphrasis for a chief, that is, Mord. (2) "Earth's offspring," a periphrasis for ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders
... but Clarissa had not yet learned to know that he who had been the great philosopher and little Lord Chancellor was not to be lightly mentioned. To Stemm the matter had become so serious, that in speaking of books, papers, and documents he would have recourse to any periphrasis rather than mention in his master's hearing the name of the fallen angel. And yet Sir Thomas was always talking to himself about Sir Francis Bacon, and ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope
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