This "high fantastical" style, ever since called euphuistic, created a sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference

The emperor, who bears the various euphuistic titles of the “Brother of the Sun and Moon.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880] Reference

It is euphuism of the purest water, with all the merits and all the drawbacks of the euphuistic manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

The language, however, is confessedly euphuistic, as may be seen by the author's comment on a speech of Samela.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

Liberal party, according to their companions and colleagues, not entitled to an epithet so euphuistic and complimentary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference

Germans say, that could utter things of daily life without euphuistic windings, without fear of ridicule for things of home expressed in home-words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference

In Egypt and Mosul, Sulaymani (the common name for an Afghan) is used to signify “poison”; but I know not whether it be merely euphuistic or confined to some species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Shakespeare's lords and ladies were not euphuistic enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

Chapman makes Homer a fanciful, euphuistic, obscure, and garrulous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Little] Reference

The dialogue is less euphuistic, and therefore much more effective.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

The form of the Duke's speech, with its touch of euphuistic conceit, is one which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare] Reference

It may be that they would have been as euphuistic as the letters of Queen Elizabeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Summing Up]

This being the case, a description of the euphuistic style need not detain us for long.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

The euphuistic garb and the mantle of the prophet Guevara sit more lightly upon our author.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

Morningside Park, and in her superficial and euphuistic way an extremely kind and pleasant woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference

It was justly objected to his clothes, by the euphuistic Fulke Greville, that a meanborn student of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The form of the Duke's speech, with its touch of euphuistic conceit, is one which Hamlet-Shakespeare affects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare]

But the euphuistic manner has a wider significance than this, for it marks the transition from poetry to prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

Lyly may indeed have borrowed from North rather than from Berners; but, if Berners 'English was as euphuistic as.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

This double-meaning gives the poet opportunity for a euphuistic word-play that was much enjoyed by the Hawaiians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference

It is impossible to give an adequate idea of the euphuistic style save in a lengthy quotation, such as the discourse of.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

She was the social leader of Morningside Park, and in her superficial and euphuistic way an extremely kind and pleasant woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story] Reference

These then are a few among the countless scribblers of those prolific times who fell under the spell of the euphuistic fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

Moreover, one must not forget that Lyly, whose euphuistic speech affected Shakespeare for years, had handled this same incident in his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare] Reference

Her talk was affluent, magisterial, de haut en bas, some would say euphuistic, but surpassing the talk of women in breadth and audacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881] Reference

He denies, moreover, that Berners was any less euphuistic than North, and gives parallel extracts from their translations to prove this.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lyly] Reference

Of the Badí‘a or euphuistic style, “Parleying euphuism,” and of Al.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

489 An euphuistic and euphemistic style of saying, “No, we don’t know.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Of the Badí'a or euphuistic style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

This was the euphuistic plea of those.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

"Isn't client rather euphuistic?" asked Corey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister's Charge] Reference

5 The sentence is euphuistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

What euphuistic gibberish is this? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference