air-spirit

Updated: May 17, 2025

I never venture to smoke a pipe of tobacco without employing the proper preliminary cabbalistic precautions, for I cannot tell whether or not my tender air-spirit may like the brand of the tobacco, and so be annoyed at the defilement of her element.

E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann - The Serapion Brethren.: Vol. II