foul-mouth'd

Updated: May 28, 2025

As the corporal thought there was nothing in the world so well worth shewing as the glorious works which he and my uncle Toby had made, Trim courteously and gallantly took her by the hand, and led her in: this was not done so privately, but that the foul-mouth'd trumpet of Fame carried it from ear to ear, till at length it reach'd my father's, with this untoward circumstance along with it, that my uncle Toby's curious draw-bridge, constructed and painted after the Dutch fashion, and which went quite across the ditch was broke down, and somehow or other crushed all to pieces that very night.

Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman