hundred-yarder

Updated: July 8, 2025

See here: it makes my flesh creep, only to speak of it! And he showed us all his arm, with the hair standing on end. Ion and Dinomachus and Cleodemus and the rest of them drank down every word. The narrator led them by their venerable noses, and this least convincing of colossal bogies, this hundred-yarder, was the object of their mute adorations.

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