dimpdin's

Updated: May 12, 2025

Gambled! Gambled! And some, abandoned wretches! who mocked me! Lifted up their voices and mocked! Mockers, gamblers, slumberers!" I never heard anything so awful as the man Dimpdin's voice, at the iteration of these three words. They seemed to come from the bowels of the earth, and rang through the wood like the growl of a lion.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

I wondered if the man Dimpdin would suggest the apportionment of flasks to soldiers, in his Evangelical report! He left me, when we regained the road, to ride with a lithe, bronchial person, in white neckcloth and coat cut close at the collar. They looked like the fox and the fiend, in the fable, and I seemed to hear the man Dimpdin's voice for three succeeding weeks.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War