lils

Updated: May 24, 2025

Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanis—my own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing. I tell you what, brother, I once heard a wise man say in Brummagem, that “there is nothing like blowing one’s own horn,” which I conceive to be much the same thing as writing one’s own lil.’ After a little more conversation, Mr.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

'Not he, said the other, with a sigh; 'he'll have quite enough to do in writing his own lils, and telling the world how handsome and clever he was; and who can blame him? Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanis my own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

'I have been in the Big City, said I, 'writing lils. 'How much money have you got in your pocket, brother? said Mr. Petulengro. 'Eighteenpence, said I; 'all I have in the world. 'I have been in the Big City, too, said Mr. Petulengro; 'but I have not written lils I have fought in the ring I have fifty pounds in my pocket I have much more in the world.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Petulengro; "but I have not written lils I have fought in the ring I have fifty pounds in my pocket I have much more in the world. Brother, there is considerable difference between us." "I would rather be the lil-writer, after all," said the tall, handsome, black man; "indeed, I would wish for nothing better." "Why so?" said Mr. Petulengro.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest