lick-it-up-a

Updated: June 13, 2025

There are stout yeomen and chamber-queans in the house, enow to play the part of Lick-it-up-a', as well as the threescore and ten priests of Bel, besides their wives and children." "And she is never seen in the family but when the hour of prayer arrives?" said the master. "Never, that I hear of," replied the servant. "It is singular," said Nigel Olifaunt, musing.

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel