leaf-and-twiggishness

Updated: May 22, 2025

I would not for worlds be your place in Recipient of slops from the basin! You, Jack-in-the-Green, leaf-and-twiggishness Won't save a dry thread on your priggishness!" You can only call this, in the most literal sense of the word, the brute-force of language.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - Robert Browning