The book is densely and allusively argued. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-Introduction-Nicholas-Royle/dp/0415966620]
Mr. ARNOLD BAX'S allusively witty music lift her on tiptoe again. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference
They might be brought in allusively and in a subordinate way, like the story of. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Vaughn Bode himself is allusively depicted on page forty-three, and I think he would be proud to find himself in these colorful funny pages. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Every phrase had to be understood allusively rather than at face value, based on the assumption that all readers had read and memorized the same 30-volume library. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: WRITTEN VERNACULARS IN ASIA.] Reference
In a tentative way information was supplied; she spoke allusively of her school, of her examination successes, of her gladness that the days of “Cram” were over. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference
And so, says the Psalmist allusively, in a similar manner, the Divine. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
In this heroic period love is only spoken of incidentally and allusively. From Wordnik.com. [Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology] Reference
The old mythology, when it was kept, was used allegorically and allusively. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Two Lectures] Reference
Henry James himself shrinks from analysing it, even allusively and insinuatingly. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Victor sketched one or two of the traits allusively to the hearer acquainted with them. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Heavenly Being is sometimes spoken of allusively as the Face or Name, the Gate and the Point (of Knowledge). From Wordnik.com. [The Reconciliation of Races and Religions] Reference
He began to produce his knowledge of the world for her benefit, jerkily and allusively, and with a strong, rank flavor of "savoir faire.". From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
Cleomenes, 1692, is a tragedy, only remarkable as it occasioned an incident related in the Guardian, and allusively mentioned by Dryden in his preface. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
She had, as a matter of fact, told us little enough and that rather allusively, but I felt that I knew the whole history of the unhappy Claire Sévérac. From Wordnik.com. [The Jervaise Comedy] Reference
There had been no disguise of the things in progress: they had been spoken of allusively, quite comprehensibly, after the fashion common with two entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
In a tentative way information was supplied; she spoke allusively of her school, of her examination successes, of her gladness that the days of "Cram" were over. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
Once or twice, obscurely, allusively, he made a beginning -- once sitting down at a man's side in a basement chop-house, another day approaching a lounger on an east-side wharf. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
Now, Rusbridger was saying (of necessity, somewhat allusively), the lawyers had warned the Guardian not even to report that MP Paul Farrelly had tabled a Commons question about the injunction. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
But if you give it your own definition and then use it in a new context than it's original definition required, you can develop a whole allusively vague language that only a select few can understand. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
“That’s them young Cossars,” said his brother, jerking his head allusively — “what all this trouble’s about ....”. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference
"forty-and-two months," and the "thousand two hundred and sixty days," as spoken allusively, and not applied it to any precise or determinate time. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Can only be answered analogically, allusively, in terms of 'as if' and likeness, by images, similitudes, models, metaphors, that is, by evocations of one sort and another. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: October 2006 Archives] Reference
Coleridge, who scattered his sneering compliments very liberally up and down the world, used to call the elder Dr. Aikin (allusively to Pope's well-known line. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
I doubt they'll be used allusively in a. From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
Why convey the facts allusively in an allegory?. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Defoe] Reference
Andres allusively. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02] Reference
A controllable time-space traveler, is used allusively by historians and forecasters (C. Day Lewis, in. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
1) if the quarrel between the brothers were a fiction, we should expect it to be detailed at length and not noticed allusively and rather obscurely — as we find it; 2) as MM. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
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