foot-and-a-half-long

Updated: June 22, 2025

We decided to include some, though certainly not all, of this material in these pages. Since this same man produces swollen, foot-and-a-half-long words, and pours forth the blaring colors of vapid rhetorical schemes, I prefer to snatch the bare limbs of the deeds themselves, with whatever sack-cloth of eloquence I have, rather than cover them with learned weavings.

Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert - The Deeds of God Through the Franks