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Doubtless it would not be disagreeable to the indulgent reader to have the history of what had taken place between the stranger lady and the young lawyer inserted here as an episodical novella.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

I am well aware that my interest in beneficent institutions is episodical and incomplete; and yet my whole heart is enlisted in their behalf.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

I accepted it as literally as the others did, and in so doing I relegated my English life to the episodical backwaters: among my adventures in India and Africa.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Then follows an episodical portion of unusual beauty—a long, dreamy passage, dolce rubato, for solo pianoforte, in which the first theme is merely hinted at in shadowy outlines, e.g.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

Then, after two measures of bold modulation, begins the middle, episodical passage which, closing with a whimsical cadenza-like passage, leads back to the beginning of the third part.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond