circumlocution quotes

Circumlocution, n. A literary trick whereby the writer who has nothing to say breaks it gently to the reader.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

   Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceivingöHOW NOT TO DO IT.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.10.