p-r-o-r-perty

Updated: June 5, 2025

Puff bought it, and became what he called 'a man of p-r-o-r-perty. To be sure, after he got possession he found that it was only an acre here and there that would grow forty bushels of wheat after turnips, and that there was a good deal more to do at the house than he expected, the furniture of the late occupants having hidden many defects, added to which they had walked off with almost everything they could wrench down, under the name of fixtures; indeed, there was not a peg to hang up his hat when he entered.

Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour