slop-basinful

Updated: April 30, 2025

"Give me something to eat and drink," he said. He looked, indeed, extraordinarily strained and tired, and sat back on the upturned box by the fireplace as if in exhaustion. He explained presently when Gertie had cooked another herring, and he had drunk a slop-basinful of tea, that he had walked fasting since breakfast, but he said nothing about the priest.

Robert Hugh Benson - None Other Gods