aspinalling

Updated: July 19, 2025

If she had been clever enough she would have said, "What a smell of masterpieces!" But her cleverness lay in other fields. "You surely haven't been aspinalling that bath-room chair?... Oh!" This loud exclamation escaped from her as she entered the attic and saw the back of the picture which Priam had lodged on the said bath-room chair filched by him from the bath-room on the previous day.

Arnold Bennett - Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days