plate-layer's

Updated: June 27, 2025

This wonderful prudence must have been a lingering touch of the mythical plate-layer's Yorkshire blood; for across the Borderline people take a pride in marrying when they please not when they can. Having regard to his departmental prospects, Miss Vezzis might as well have asked Michele to go away and come back with the Moon in his pocket.

Rudyard Kipling - Plain Tales from the Hills