Circumlocution Office

He added that his political opinions had already been not obscurely stated in an "idle book or two"; and he reminded his hearers that he was the inventor "of a certain fiction called the Circumlocution Office, said to be very extravagant, but which

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered.

Little Dorrit 2007

So Arthur resumed the long and hopeless labour of striving to make way with the Circumlocution Office.

Little Dorrit 2007

How there had been a final interview with the head of the Circumlocution Office that very morning, and how the

Little Dorrit 2007

Having got to this pass, he resolved as an exercise in perseverance, to betake himself again to the Circumlocution Office, and try what satisfaction he could get there.

Little Dorrit 2007

Circumlocution Office, of places that might fall vacant anywhere within half a century, from a lord of the Treasury to a Chinese consul, and up again to a governor – general of India, but as applicants for such places, the names of some or of every one of these hungry and adhesive

Little Dorrit 2007