bominably

Updated: May 17, 2025

I roared with laughter; vowed I had never heard a better joke in my life; and repeated his last words over and over, like a degraded idiot as I was. All at once a sense of deadly faintness came upon me. I turned hot and cold by turns, and lifting my hand to my head, said, or tried to say: "Room's 'bominably close!" "We had better go," he replied promptly. "The air will do you good.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - In the Days of My Youth