machine-cotton

Updated: May 23, 2025

The chances of sudden wealth floated like dazzling Will o' the Wisps on the horizon, illumining the gray perspectives of the future. The lottery took the poor ticket-holders out of themselves, and gave them an interest in life apart from machine-cotton, lasts or tobacco-leaf.

Israel Zangwill - Children of the Ghetto : A Study of a Peculiar People