"Ambagitory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott |
