Complicated procedure

Usage examples of rigmarole.

Demetrius commanded Margari to go up into his room and have a complete translation of all this Latin rigmarole written down in honest Hungarian by the morning and to encourage him in his task he gave him two guldens and an order on the butler for as much punch as he could drink.

Officially Slattery determined that there was not even hard evidence that national security had been compromised for him to go through the whole rigmarole of informing Washington.

All the rigmarole about Trema being dead, having died bravely in the service of the Emperorthat is, the Commission of Public Safetyall nonsense.

Meanwhile, Fitz had had Zanni Bonvecino write for him a rigmarole in Italian, and had memorized it.

But the academic economists, and still more so Marx and his followers, refuse to deal with these fundamentals, and, with a stupid pose of sound practical wisdom, insist on opening up their case with an uncritical acceptance of the common antagonism of employers and employed and a long rigmarole about profits and wages.

The sight of a poor creature grubbing for rhymes to fill up his sonnet, or to cram one of those voracious, rhyme-swallowing rigmaroles which some of our drudging poetical operatives have been exhausting themselves of late to satiate with jingles, makes my head ache and my stomach rebel.

Then with the stylized rigmarole these scenes apparently required, he let the envelope slip from his fingers to the seat and, not quite on camera, jammed it into the crevice under the backrest.

Raglan took me along, we went through the rigmarole of flunkeys with brushes that I remembered from my previous visit with Wellington, and we were ushered into a study where Prince Albert was waiting for us.

Florian reeled off some more rigmarole, while Clover Lee took the remaining five saucers to that arc of the ring backed by only the empty back door of the tent, and stuck each saucer's rim into the ring's earthen curb so it stood upright.