cuttle-juice

Updated: January 18, 2026

Someone raised the cover of a vat, and peering down into the opening we saw a small, vicious engine hard at work, entirely enveloped in twisty, coily, stewy depths of black oil, like a devil-fish writhing in sea-ooze and cuttle-juice.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Europe Revised