faithfully-trimmed

Updated: May 23, 2025

For five years that faithfully-trimmed lamp told the whole countryside that Widow Stott was not forgetful of her own; and when once or twice rebuked by some of the Rehoboth deacons at the premium which she seemed to put on sin by thus inviting a wanderer's return, she always replied: 'Blame Him as mak's a woman so as hoo cornd forget her child.

Marshall Mather - Lancashire Idylls (1898)