devil's-stone

Updated: October 3, 2025

And here Essper began pouring forth a liturgy of his own, half Catholic and half Calvinistic, quite in character with the creed of the country through which they were travelling. "My horse has stumbled," continued Essper, "and yours, sir, is he not shying? There is a confounded cloud over the moon, but I have no sight in the dark if that mass before you be not a devil's-stone.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey