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Because his phraseology was colorless, he has become a stainer of phrases, a sort of musical euphuist.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
For all his genius, Ghiberti, that euphuist, did not influence those who came after him as Donatello did.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
Yet again, he puts Bruno's large aphorism, "Sol et homo generant hominem," beside Hamlet's gibe about the sun breeding maggots in a dead dog—a phrase possible to any euphuist of the period.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
"Dear Miss Falconer, you are such an euphuist!"
From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Edmund Frederick
But the subjects chosen by Burton were such as belonged to a very plain-spoken age; and as the versifier was no euphuist in his relation of facts, the result was a remarkable “Pastime for Youth.”
From Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
