Citations:Polyphlœsbic

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 * 1830, 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.