climax-pie

Updated: May 24, 2025

Last came a climax-pie, contents unknown. And when that dish, fit to set before a king, was opened, the poem of our supper was complete. J. B. sailed to the Parnassus where Ude and Vattel feast, forever cooking immortal banquets in star-lighted spheres.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862