10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUNDABOUTATION»
Discover the use of
roundaboutation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
roundaboutation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Supplementary English Glossary
To finish my tale without roundaboutation. — H. and J. Smith, Rejected
Addresses, p. 177. Rounders, a boy's game. Prisoner's base, rounders, high-cock
-a-Ior- um, cricket, foot-ball, he was soon initiated into the delights of them all. —
Hughes ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
Pity rhetorical roundaboutation Can't be confined to sensations spectacular ! Pity
the dear, good old game of our nation Can't be described in the good old
vernacular! The best upholder of the Union Jack. — The Union Jack-tar.
TREASURE ...
Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, 1897
3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Though mine is but one scene, yet the conclusion is the same as that which is arri
'Ved at'by all' the roundaboutation of a five-act comedy. The hero and heroine
make their bow and courtesy under the pleasing certainty that . their nuptials are
...
4
New friends, by the author of 'Julian and his playfellows'.
... amongst you may find out, by the peculiar beauty of expression, where that is
the case. But now, I see, you are all very eager; so without ' any more
roundaboutation,' I begin the story of ' The Knight of the Tomb,' from Sir NEW
FRIENDS. 59.
I didn't have much conversation with Lord Wroxton, but your mama made an
excuse to take me apart, and she asked me, without any roundaboutation, to tell
her if it was true that you had brought Cherry here, and, if so, why you had done
so.
6
Newton rescued from the precipitancy of his followers ...
The judge, after a long legal roundaboutation, gives a decision, "the plain English
of which is, that " he ordered the clerk to record a verdict for the defendant,
although the " foreman declared it was for the plaintiff."* Exquisitely legal, no
doubt, ...
William Peters (of Brighton.), 1846
... finally met hergentleman, right here, andapparently she was none too
pleasedtosee him, aswho can wonder after leading her such a merry chase. He
would have done better to bring her by the quickest route without all that
roundaboutation.
8
Burlesque plays and poems
To finish my tale without roundaboutation, Young master and missee besieged
their papa, They sung a quartetto in grand blubberation ; The Stranger cried " Oh
! " Mrs. Haller cried " Ah ! " Though pathos and sentiment largely are dealt in, ...
9
The Highland Series: Highland Fling, Highland Secrets, ...
... finally met hergentleman, right here, andapparently she was none too
pleasedtosee him, aswho can wonder after leading her such a merry chase. He
would have done better to bring her by the quickest route without all that
roundaboutation.
... enters the house, she will leave it. Let me reassure you on one point at least!
Tomorrow, either Felix's aunt, or, more probably, his sister, Miss Merriville, will
come here to nurse him. Now tell me, without roundaboutation, what it is 325
frederica.
