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• Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.
• If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us. -- Edmund Wilson
• Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
• He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.
• That gear is an elliptical one.
• He has a very elliptical way of expressing himself.