eftes

Updated: May 21, 2025

During my sojourn in the dingle, my food had been of the simplest and most unsatisfying description, by no means calculated to support the exertion which the labour I had been engaged upon required; it had consisted of coarse oaten cakes, and hard cheese, and for beverage I had been indebted to a neighbouring pit, in which, in the heat of the day, I frequently saw, not golden or silver fish, but frogs and eftes swimming about.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

During my sojourn in the dingle, my food had been of the simplest and most unsatisfying description, by no means calculated to support the exertion which the labour I had been engaged upon required; it had consisted of coarse oaten cakes and hard cheese, and for beverage I had been indebted to a neighbouring pit, in which, in the heat of the day, I frequently saw, not golden or silver fish, but frogs and eftes swimming about.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Heaviness had come over me. Several causes Frogs and eftes Gloom and twilight What should I do? 'Our Father' Fellow-men What a mercy! Almost calm Fresh store History of Saul Pitch dark. Heaviness had suddenly come over me, heaviness of heart, and of body also.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

During my sojourn in the dingle, my food had been of the simplest and most unsatisfying description, by no means calculated to support the exertion which the labour I had been engaged upon required; it had consisted of coarse oaten cakes and hard cheese, and for beverage I had been indebted to a neighbouring pit, in which, in the heat of the day, I frequently saw, not golden or silver fish, but frogs and eftes swimming about.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest