With transitory actions, venue remained only a limitation on the verbal formula by which the plaintiff might frame a cause of action.

"Your Honor, respectfully note our exception," he said, hewing close to a verbal formula.

The verbal formula was more than routine in Serig's mouth; he fairly quivered with anticipation.

Although she does not call herself a poet, she considers finding the verbal formula for each project to be poetic.

In addition to verbal formulas, many themes have been shown to appear among the various works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

If it was not, then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula.

It would be easy, she said, for a candidate to make a promise while avoiding a particular verbal formula.

Theological talk, as such, is only a verbal formula.

The spoken word was thus the single most potent religious action, and knowledge of the correct verbal formulas the key to efficacy.

A snowclone conveys information by using a familiar verbal formula and the cultural knowledge of the audience.