quarry-pits

Updated: June 22, 2025

Take care, my lad," to the post-boy, who was crossing with difficulty the literally "pathless waste." "Don't lurch us into the quarry-pits, or topple us at once down the slope, where we shall roll over and over facilis descensus Averni and lodge in Mrs. Tod's garden hedge." "Mrs. Tod would feel flattered if she knew Latin. You don't look upon our future habitation as a sort of Avernus?"

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman