oxford-like

Updated: June 8, 2025

'An apple is round, said I, 'and the world is round the apple is a sour, disagreeable fruit; and who has tasted much of the world without having his teeth set on edge? I, however, treated the publisher, upon the whole, in the most urbane and Oxford-like manner; complimenting him upon his style, acknowledging the general soundness of his views, and only differing with him in the affair of the apple and pear.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest