new-whitewashed

Updated: July 20, 2026

Of his school course though it lasted for over seven years the autobiographer has little to say; nothing, indeed, except that he "cannot omit mentioning" that anecdote with which everybody, I suppose, who has ever come across the briefest notice of Sterne's life is familiar. The schoolmaster "had the ceiling of the schoolroom new-whitewashed, and the ladder remained there.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - Sterne