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Still, there was the plain injunction, and the lawyer doubtless had a reason for it hidden somewhere behind his tiresome circumambulatory approaches.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser were both rather circumambulatory on paper; the work of each is 'a long monotone broken by two or three exquisite immortalities.

From The Open Secret of Ireland by Kettle, T. M. (Thomas Michael)

Of these circumambulatory ells of crape, the young artificer contrived to fabricate a dress that was anything but unbecoming.

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

It felt comfortable to bounce around in the similar movements of his circumambulatory personal life.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

I implied, in as delicate and circumambulatory a way as possible, that his one-time wife, according to my own observations, taken under peculiarly favorable, because exacting, conditions, was completely accepted.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake