phrase (n.)
phrasing, language, manner of expression
2H4 III.ii.72[Bardolph to Shallow, of 'accommodated'] I have heard the word - phrase call you it?
Ham I.iv.19[Hamlet to Horatio, of outsiders' views of the Danes] They clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase / Soil our addition
Ham II.ii.441[Hamlet to First Player] no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation
KL IV.vi.8[Gloucester to disguised Edgar] thou speak'st / In better phrase and matter than thou didst
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