He certainly makes some very elegant classical allusions to flowers and fruits, and some amusingly vague ones as well.
We meet with several further allusionsto John Chaucer among the London city records.
His allusions to wedded life are predominantly disrespectful, or at best mockingly ironical; and though his own marriage may well have steadied him in some ways--Prof.
The three charming figures disappeared behind a bamboo thicket around a bend in the brook, and their cruel allusions ceased to be heard.
On Ibarra the words and allusions made no more impression, for he was thinking of a cottage on the top of a mountain and saw Maria Clara in the garden; let men crawl about in their miserable towns in the depths of the valley!
The words were hardly out of her mouth when she regretted them, foreseeingallusions to elephants till the end of her days, for Sister Jerome often said foolish things, and was greatly quizzed for them.
You know I have been through a great deal; and though I am sure you would have refrained from all allusions to unpleasant topics, still your presence would remind me too much of what I don't want to think about.
Peleus and Thetis, and the pathetic allusionsto an early-lost brother in the poem to Hortalus.
One of the earliestallusions to the jingle is in Don Quixote, pt.
In order to appreciate the allusions here made to David Whitmer it will be necessary to remember that William E.
Contemporary allusions to Shackspere in "Every Man out of his Humour"; and "As you Like it" V.
The allusions to Portuguese, Castilian, and Aragonese history are so intertwined in these paragraphs that some caution is necessary.
Footnote 443: To the English reader these lines would appear the reverse of apposite; but Orientals have their own ways of application, and all allusions to Badawi partings are effective and affecting.
Footnote 438: The staple abuse of the vulgar is cursing parents and relatives, especially feminine, with specific allusions to their "shame.
In this and in the "liver" allusions I dare not be baldly literal.
Alfredo Panzini dedicated his "Madonna di Mama" to him, and made touching allusions to his qualities of soul and potential greatness.
In his poem entitled "Lucifer" there are many disparagingallusions to him.
Crossing the ocean, the same differences appear, with allusions to the character of the war.
Duncan, talked a great deal in her sleep, and made numerous and very distinct allusions to the cases of other sick persons.
The allusions of Heathen mythology to drunkenness, its effects, and the means of tempering its influence, are curious.
The writer, evidently not only a genuine lover of the poetry of Spenser, but well acquainted with the scene he describes, goes at much length into the characters and allusions of the poem of the Faerie Queene.
The 1813 edition of Psyche contains some affecting allusions to her, in the preface written by her husband, who soon after followed her to the grave.
On such occasions he indulged in rancorous allusions to stray sheep and lost souls, spite of the presence of the servants, who nudged one another, and afterward let their tongues wag freely in the servants' hall.
It was written in monkish Latin at any time between the eighth and ninth centuries, and is connected with later versions of the Nibelungenlied, which contains numerousallusions to it.
Indeed, the great German epic contains repeated allusions to this work of the ninth or tenth century, which is dealt with later in this book.
Euphuism asserts itself occasionally in the verse, and the affectation of scholarship, customary in that day, is responsible for a superabundance of classical allusions in unexpected places.
Some allusions to reproaches of this kind occur in the Memoir; and we shall find others in letters subsequent to his admission at the Bar.
Instead of wearying the reader with a mere descriptive catalogue, I have preferred to accompany the pictures with allusions to contemporary satire other than pictorial.
The Japanese are a gentler and kindlier people than the Chinese; women occupy a better position among them; and hence the allusions to the sex in their literature are less contemptuous and satirical.
After all efforts to discover in the works of Rabelais hidden allusions to the great personages and events of his time, we must remain of the opinion that he was a fun-maker pure and simple, a court-fool to his century.
The historical and biographical notes and the references to the sources of Dante's allusions are abundant and good; but interpretations of difficult passages or words are not always unquestionable.
It is true that he could not be called in the narrow sense a literary writer, that he made no literary mosaic, and few allusions to the literature of the world.
It is accompanied by occasional notes elucidating allusions now become obscure through lapse of time, and the blanks in the text have been filled up with the names of the various persons introduced or alluded to.
DIXON thinks that anecdotes and allusionsto so conspicuous a person may occur in the cotemporary letters and memoirs of France, Germany, Italy, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allusions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
