cistus-grown

Updated: September 26, 2025

Ford, "in any cistus-grown waste, may at any time, in five minutes, break up the road, stop the train, stick the stoker, and burn the engines in their own fire, particularly smashing the luggage-train." To English ears this may sound like absurd exaggeration.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847