phelgm

Updated: May 20, 2025

After having listened to their harangue with much phelgm, he gave them his answer in four words: "Go and be d n'd." The deputy, who had addressed him, nothing disconcerted, instantly replied: "Sir, it is the custom of the Parliament to enter in their registers the answers which they receive from the throne: shall they insert this?"

Francis W. Blagdon - Paris as It Was and as It Is