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Meanings of allusion in English

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Reference to another work.

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Examples for "quote"
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Truthiness: People have certainly talked about that Etch-a-Sketch quote quite a bit.
The Guardian
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Here's the quote: Analysts need not come solely from the intelligence community.
Wired
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Labour has sent a fairly anodyne quote about the French nuclear deal.
The Guardian
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Best quote: I am strongly opposed to all forms of proportional representation.
The Guardian
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Cameron asks Miliband to ask the question again, including the complete quote.
The Guardian
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If they don't understand the quotation then they can't answer the question.
The Irish Times
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His ideas on the subject will be understood from the following quotation:
Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley / Second A...
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The problem can be summarized with another, and much older, classical quotation.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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The words italicized in the foregoing quotation are of special significance to-day.
An Ethical Problem / Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentat...
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Now read the quotation an the Triumphal Arch of the Rising Sun:
Palaces and Courts of the Exposition / A Handbook of the Archite...
Usage of allusion in English
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I remember the following couplet in allusion to the King and himself:
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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This was in allusion to the idea of his being a spy.
Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
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The care of sheep is the subject of frequent allusion in Scripture.
The Song of our Syrian Guest
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The allusion is to the great mercy and love of the gods.
Tales of Old Japan
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Every allusion to ecclesiastical corruption in speeches or in plays was applauded.
The Age of the Reformation
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The allusion is to the story of Pingala, in Section 74 ante.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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And in all this there never was any allusion to the child.
Madame Bovary
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All the signs have been revealed; every prophetic allusion hath been manifested.
The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh
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The slightest allusion to the subject agitates her for the whole day.
Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel
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This is the allusion in a birthday letter from Sir M. Foster:-
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
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This was an allusion to the idea of his being a spy.
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, a...
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He rose and made some allusion to the lateness of the hour.
El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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His allusion to the poet and the partridges was received very well.
The Warden
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In Al-Hijaz, as in England, any allusion to poverty is highly offensive.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
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Hood, in his Ode to Melancholy, uses the same allusion very beautifully:
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
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That allusion to the shortness of the time brought Ruth an inspiration.
Mistress Wilding
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