Mr. Smithson succeeded in seeing Lesbia alone, and then and there, with very littlecircumlocution, asked her to be his wife.
2
One seldom hesitates about addressing an Indian, and we commenced a discourse with our venerable fellow-passenger, with very littlecircumlocution or ceremony.
3
Her sympathy disappeared altogether when with littlecircumlocution he broached the subject of the Boruwimi expedition, and dropped a mention of Mrs. Willoughby's relative.