notice-takers

Updated: May 9, 2025

So prithee tell me; how did you ever detect the noodle's mulierosity?" "Alas! good youth, you make a mountain of a molehill. We that are women be notice-takers; and out of the tail of our eye see more than most men can, glaring through a prospect glass.

Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth