gastropodous

Updated: May 16, 2025

I am a honest British workman, and employ ment I cannot ob tain. You sit in your com for ta ble 'ouses, and I ask you to ass ist a fellow creature, driven to this for no fault of his own for many can 'elp one where one cannot 'elp many." Then he hove into sight a gastropodous tub of a fellow, with a rascally red eye; and I shrank behind my curtains, for I never court parley with such gentlemen.

Bernard Edward Joseph Capes - At a Winter's Fire