snoxton

Updated: May 26, 2025

A firm of solicitors, with a snake of a style Banghurst, Brown, Flapp, Codlin, Brown, Tedder, and Snoxton, they called themselves, and appeared invariably in the form of a small rufous cunning-looking gentleman with a pointed nose said vague things about damages, and there was a polished personage, her ladyship's agent, who came in suddenly upon Redwood one day and asked, "Well, Sir, and what do you propose to do?"

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth