Usage examples (27)

• "ambages" as an English word in his translation of Lucan.
• “Longa est fabula, longæ ambages;” this is “Caput rei.”
• The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr Glascock had lived.
• Rapin too gives his Vote on the same side, Rien n'est, says he, plus essentiel au Poem Epique, que la Fiction; and quotes Petronius to that purpose, Per ambages,...