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Meanings of only allusion in English

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Usage of only allusion in English
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At lunch, the only allusion to the situation had been Harbinger's inquiry:
The Patrician
2
The only allusion to the visitor of the morning was: Mr.
Castle Craneycrow
3
This was the only allusion Kowalski ever made to his past.
Selected Polish Tales
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This was the only allusion she had yet made to their former acquaintance.
Phineas Redux
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The only allusion therefore that he made to Miltoun's trouble was very sudden.
The Patrician
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This is the only allusion throughout the poem, to the object of the journey.
Horace
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That was his only allusion to my humble self in all those diffuse pages.
When the World Shook / Being an Account of the Great Adventure o...
8
His father made no comment on his absence; his only allusion to the subject was:
The Man
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This was the only allusion he ventured to make to the love affairs of Therese.
Theresa Raquin
10
And it was characteristic of Hal Harling that this was the only allusion he made to the adventure.
Carl and the Cotton Gin
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The recovery from this tedious illness is the only allusion which Seneca has made to the circumstances of his childhood.
Seekers after God
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This was the only allusion the visitor, in her great good taste, made for the present to her young friend's inheritance.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1
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It was the only allusion he made to what had happened on the tower, and never again did he refer to it.
Orrain: A Romance
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That is the only allusion I shall permit to escape me on the subject of Eva Eversleigh's engagement to that scoundrel Julian.
Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel
15
In the car she possessed herself of the girl's hand, and squeezed it hard; their only allusion to the situation, except Noel's formal:
Saint's Progress
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That had been the only allusion to the duel made between the three men during the journey, which had taken about an hour.
Cosmopolis — Volume 3
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