never-so-much

Updated: April 30, 2025

Could utmost ingenuity in the management of red tape avail anything to men lying gasping, we may say, all but dead; could despatch boxes with never-so-much velvet lining and Chubb's patent be of comfort to a people in extremis, I also, with so many others, would, with parched tongue, call on the name of Lord John Russell; or, my brother, at your advice, on Lord Aberdeen; or, my cousin, on Lord Derby, at yours; being, with my parched tongue, indifferent to such matters.

Anthony Trollope - The Warden