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Significats de turn of expression en anglès

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A distinctive spoken or written expression.

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Ús de turn of expression en anglès
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A slight and natural turn of expression such as this easily fixes itself in the memory.
The Gospels in the Second Century / An Examination of the Critic...
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The turn of expression is called a Trope, and change of construction is called a Schema.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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His own poems, even to the slightest turn of expression, became more and more important to him.
Two Years Ago, Volume I
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To conclude with one more instance of critical emendation: Milton says, with an agreeable turn of expression-
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
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She opens it unconcernedly and reads it quickly, giving a little laugh at some quaint turn of expression in it].
Mrs. Warren's Profession
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Full of this idea, the grammarian Aristophanes exclaimed in a somewhat affected, though highly ingenious turn of expression: O life and Menander!
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no trait, no turn of expression announced relationship.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
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I do not dwell upon that thought, but just remind you of a turn of expression which occurs in various connections more than once.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
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No one ever taught her certain turns of expression which she used.
The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Volume 2
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She delighted in original turns of expression, which were sometimes far-fetched and artificial.
The Women of the French Salons
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Banks looked at me sharply, with one of his keen, rather challenging turns of expression.
The Jervaise Comedy
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Farewell gayety, ease, those happy turns of expressions, which formerly even made my faults escape correction.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01
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We are not aware that Pope pretended to have discovered any turns of expression peculiar to Addison.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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All this time he spoke in French, and the English but poorly paraphrases his odd turns of expression.
Alice of Old Vincennes
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She is master of powerful figures of speech, original, epigrammatic turns of expression, and, sometimes, of a stirring eloquence.
Halleck's New English Literature
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Vardri was idealist as well as lover, and graceful turns of expression came to his pen readily and without effort.
The Hippodrome
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