oft-essayed

Updated: June 3, 2025

Sore, therefore, about his knees and elbows, he had given up his lofty perch and betaken himself to his oft-essayed task of digging a hole in the ground, to reach the fire that the kindergarten governess had informed him burnt in the middle of the earth.

Ethel Sybil Turner - In the Mist of the Mountains