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Example sentences for "allusiveness"

Lexicographically close words:
alluringly; allus; allusion; allusions; allusive; alluvia; alluvial; alluvion; alluvions; alluvium
  1. I have often been told by some old buck that Dickens could not describe a gentleman, and been told so in the shaky voice and with all the vague allusiveness of Cousin Feenix.

  2. In the sixteenth century such allusiveness was generally fruit of an extensive knowledge of the ancient classics; but though the references differ, the manner is much the same in Charles Lamb as in Jeremy Taylor and Sir Thomas Browne.

  3. Ian had an allusiveness of conversation which made human intercourse a perpetual entertainment, and Jasmine's intercourse with him a delight which lingered after his going until his coming again.

  4. The sin of allusiveness is fostered by the fashion of the day for epigram, till his lines are barely intelligible after repeated reading.


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