Citations:Polyphlœsbic

English citations of Polyphlœsbic

Adjective: optional spelling of polyphloisbic

					1830
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• 1830 C.E., edited by Mary Russell Mitford, Stories of American Life, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley; Volume II of III, pages 317–318:

  When the dinner bells were heard from the neighbouring hotels, neither the frowns nor pauses of the orator had power to quell what he would have styled the Polyphlœsbic noise ; and when Mr. Latimer got up the cry of fire, the bulk of the audience poured out with no further ceremony, in a continued stream, the residuum amounting to some twenty or thirty heads ; for whose edification Firkins was obliged to huddle up his practical, moral, and religious applications ; and to promise a conclusion of his discourse on another occasion.