po-o-o-etry

Updated: July 29, 2026

Instead of writing po-o-o-etry? Do you recollect that morning, and the black draught? Oh dear, my side!" And Tom heard him keckling to himself up the garden walk to his house; went off to see that Elsley was safe; and then home, and slept like a top; no wonder, for he would have done so the night before his execution. And what was little Mary doing all the while?

Charles Kingsley - Two Years Ago, Volume II.