| This ploy was so successful that Victorian men became fainthearted at the sight of a well-turned ankle. |
| In one well-turned, humorous phrase, Michael steals his equally alliterative interviewer Lou's article right out from under him. |
| It may just be us, but a fantastically well-turned set of ankles in a pair of smart courts is, suddenly, kind of kinky. |
| Astonishingly, he was commissioning his young friend John, the man of well-turned phrases, to propose marriage in his behalf. |
| They quoted well-turned phrases and fondly remembered ingenious conclusions. |
| The scholar, too, was remembered with a toast, to which he replied with well-turned phrases. |
