There is nothing, apparently, studied about it, no ornament or involution, no otiose epithets, no subtle allusiveness.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Where, in his boyhood, he had felt only the perfect, the almost austere beauty of form, the subtle interplay of vowel-sounds, the rush and fulness of lyric emotion, he now thrilled to the close-packed significance of each line, the allusiveness of each word-his imagination lured hither and thither on fresh trails of thought, and perpetually spurred by the sense that, beyond what he had already discovered, more marvellous regions lay waiting to be explored.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
Her own latent motherhood, however, kept stealing up out of the dim distances of childhood's ignorance and, with modesty and allusiveness, whispering knowledge in her ear.
"The Money Master, Volume 3."
Gilbert Parker