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Why be anxious to smooth the way? why deal in apologies, circuities, and innuendoes?

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

He was perpetually encumbered with the rubbish of law, and waded with laborious steps through its endless tautologies, its impertinent circuities, its lying assertions, and hateful artifices.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

The meditations of Constantia, however, could not fail in some of their circuities to encounter the image of Craig.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

I could deal only in circuities and hints.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

I need not dwell upon our doublings and circuities.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden