modishly-fashioned

Updated: May 10, 2025

Only among a hardy race of folk can you have come to birth only in a land which, though poor and rough, lies spread over half the world, and spans versts the counting whereof would leave one with aching eyes. Nor are you a modishly-fashioned vehicle of the road a thing of clamps and iron. Rather, you are a vehicle but shapen and fitted with the axe or chisel of some handy peasant of Yaroslav.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls