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"Dear Miss Falconer, you are such an euphuist!"

From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Frederick, Edmund

Professor Raleigh's explanation of this tedious moralizing is that Lyly, wit and euphuist, possessed the Nonconformist conscience: "Beneath the courtier's slashed doublet, under his ornate brocade and frills, there stood the Puritan."

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

As a modern euphuist has taught us, of all poses the natural pose is the most irritating.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

Here is a specimen of his felicity, referring to the plays of old John Lily, the euphuist.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various

His description of a euphuist in "The Monastery" bears no resemblance whatever to the followers of John Lyly.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard