mumble-toothed

Updated: June 22, 2025

On the way it passes the Abbaye de Mont Majeur, a ruin of gigantic size, embracing all periods of architecture; where nothing seems to flourish now but henbane and the wild cucumber, or to breathe but a mumble-toothed and terrible old hag.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series