pochissimo

Updated: May 22, 2025

I half expected to find a hansom waiting, but there was none, and we had gone some distance down the Earl's Court Road before we got one; in fact, we had to run to the stand. Opposite is the church with the clock upon it, as everybody knows, and at sight of the dial my companion had wrung his hands; it was close upon the half-hour. "Poco tempo pochissimo!" he wailed.

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman