mortar-smelling-quarters

Updated: May 27, 2025

We slept soundly however, and rose in the hope of soon changing our mortar-smelling-quarters for Miss Wright's Nashoba. But we presently found that the rain which had fallen during the night would make it hazardous to venture through the forests of Tennessee in any sort of carriage; we therefore had to pass the day at our queer comfortless hotel.

Frances Milton Trollope - Domestic Manners of the Americans