A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.
1 The doctor still answered per ambages , ut mos oraculis.
2 There should be ambages in such a matter.
3 And the ambages should take time.
4 It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES , and ways of speech not common.
5 No "longæ ambages " for him.
6 But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'
7 The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr. Glascock had lived.
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