shibolath

Updated: June 25, 2025

Any amount of duels have come of it; it hath made rich no end of milliners; it hath made bankrupt husbands by the dozen; it hath been the theatre of several distinguished romances; it hath witnessed the first throbbings of sundry hearts, since made happy in wedlock; it hath been the shibolath of sins that shall be nameless here. Cecilia, as is also the prettiest and most popular unmarried parson.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life

Any amount of duels have come of it; it hath made rich no end of milliners; it hath made bankrupt husbands by the dozen; it hath been the theatre of several distinguished romances; it hath witnessed the first throbbings of sundry hearts, since made happy in wedlock; it hath been the shibolath of sins that shall be nameless here. Cecilia, as is also the prettiest and most popular unmarried parson.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - An Outcast: or, Virtue and Faith