"ambages" as an English word in his translation of Lucan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

“Longa est fabula, longæ ambages;” this is “Caput rei.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference

The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr Glascock had lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

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, Deorumque ministeria praecipitandus est Liber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)] Reference

Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, &c. In this labyrinth of accidental causes, the farther I wander, the more intricate I find the passage, multae ambages, and new causes as so many by-paths offer themselves to be discussed: to search out all, were an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference

The pale-faced clerk, accustomed to such documents, glanced over the ambages, the "whereases," the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Mackenzie] Reference

It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some ambages, and ways of speech not common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Dialogue] Reference

The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

We have now reached, "longas per ambages," the times of Wilkins 'manhood: he was born a year later than the opening of the College which he was to rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester] Reference

’ ‘For all that, ’ said the captain, ‘I would not make myself known on the sudden, but would use some pretty ambages to bring him acquainted with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourth Book. XV. Which Speaks of That Which After Befel in the Inn, and of Sundry Other Things Worthy to Be Known] Reference

This spiritual or emotional man-and-woman-in-the-weather-house business continues; but at last, with ambages and minor peripeteias impossible to abstract, it so comes about that the great and proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

Of which dozen the one moiety failed of success by being dropped among unsuitable company, and the other cost me so many strains, and traps, and ambages to introduce, that I at length resolved to give it over.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of a Tub] Reference

Only I do see by them, that speaking in matters distasteful to him that we write to, it is best to do it in the plainest way and without ambages or reasoning, but only say matters of fact, and leave the party to collect your meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

The whole passage is worth quoting: "Post sepulturam vanae Manium ambages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference

“adulterium” is rendered “her pranks;” “ambages” becomes either “a long rabble of words,” “a long-winded detail,” or “a tale of a tub;”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

“adulterium” is rendered “her pranks;” “ambages” becomes either “a long rabble of words,” “a long-winded detail,” or “a tale of a tub;”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference

No “longae ambages” for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Richmond] Reference

4 Per ambages quidem Geta Antiphonefti deducic in laetitiam; fed fiducia ante firmat nuntium, quem ap - portet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ...] Reference

And the ambages should take time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belton Estate] Reference

Vague ambages and witless ecstasies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference

There should be ambages in such a matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belton Estate] Reference

To such ambages who doth their minde incline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Fools, Volume 1] Reference

Succinis ambages? tibi luditur: efRuis atnens.    From Wordnik.com.  [A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...] Reference

2006), p. 159, lists ambages, ambio, ambulo, amfractus (anfractus), and anquiro among Latin words formed from amb (i), and his list is not exhaustive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laudator Temporis Acti] Reference

"Full of ambages.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference