plumb-lift

Updated: May 23, 2025

Or that I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done

Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman