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n. (plural of anthropometry English)
n. (context organic compound English) A particular ellagitannin found in geraniums.
n. (context rhetoric English) The pretence of passing over a subject while at the same time describing it fully.
Usage examples of "proslepsis".
Along with sweet dimples, indignant dimples, and enthusiastic dimples, it seemed possible that Pippa had among her repertoire a few larcenous ones.
Fair features, grace of mien, nor least The comic dimples round her April mouth, Sprung of her intimate humanity.
Here and there moss clung bravely, and insects whirred over puddles formed in rock dimples that would be gone by late afternoon, but the barrenness overshadowed the life around it.
So he made a motion of flourishing the Lily once or twice, but forbore, fascinated, for she had on her fair face the softness of sleep, her lips closed in dimples, and the wicked fire shut from beneath her lids.
Already, see, the hue returneth to his cheek and the dimples of pleasure.
Cecil would have grown up just common and ignorant and fit for nothing better than to furnish amusement to girl doctors with dimples and big, gray eyes and a way of laughing.
She stayed a long half hour, and was so gay that it seemed like old times to listen to her laugh and watch her dimples while she talked.
At any rate, a week was a long, long time to put in without any gray eyes or any laugh, or any dimples, or, in short, without the Little Doctor.
The outside had some dimples in the metal running in an almost straight line from front to back, but the finish had been well polished and the interior was as clean and blank as his office.
The interior was clean, the engine sounded good, and the outside only had a few dimples on the metal to show that it was no virgin.
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