long-stone

Updated: July 25, 2026

The new generation of girls, with their smart frocks, in fashion not more than six months behind London, their Board School notions, and their consuming ambition to "look like a lady" were these likely to cherish a local custom as rude and primitive as the long-stone circles on the tors above? But they were Cornish; and of that race it is unwise to judge rashly.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Delectable Duchy