PERIPHRASIS • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Periphrasis

... saints, or open hints to the devil came roaring from him, that hilarious mouth of his invited you to share delights. You had needs laugh with him, and he, cursing high and low, beamed all over his face. "To make Baldassare laugh" became a stock periphrasis for the supreme degree of tragedy among his neighbours. About this traitor mouth of his he had a dew of scrubby beard, silvered black; he had bushy eyebrows, hands and arms covered with a black pelt: he was a very hairy man. Also ...

— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... part. be, as myndgiend wre here, is comparatively rare in original A.-S. literature, but occurs abundantly in translations from the Latin. The periphrasis is ...

— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.