flower-pricked

Updated: April 30, 2025

First, the quiet of the great house and courtyard, the flower-pricked grass, the "still-faced babies"; then the sudden clash of the street-cries! "Your uncle's description of this house," writes the present Lord Lansdowne, in 1910, "might almost have been written yesterday, instead of in 1848.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1