o-ration

Updated: May 13, 2025

'What is the Pogram Defiance? asked Martin, thinking, perhaps, it was the sign of a public-house. 'An o-ration, sir, returned his friend. 'Oh! to be sure, cried Martin. 'What am I thinking of! It defied 'It defied the world, sir, said the other, gravely.

Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit