escrick

Updated: June 17, 2025

With an effort she managed to close the lids, and as tears slowly refreshed the eye-balls, she was so much relieved that she might have fallen asleep, but for Melchard's detested voice sounding above her. "I think that's Escrick we've just run through. York in ten minutes about. When I say 'now, down you go under the rug again. I'm the only passenger through the town."

Oliver Fleming - Ambrotox and Limping Dick

"Agreed," they said. "I choose pistols," said Burlington. "I," said Escrick, "the ancient combat of the lists, with the mace and the dagger." "I," said Holderness, "the duel with two knives, long and short, stripped to the waist, and breast to breast." "Lord David," said the Earl of Thanet, "you are a Scot. I choose the claymore." "I the sword," said Rockingham.

Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs