spatterdashers

Updated: June 12, 2025

I could name one man who spent three years living down a pair of spatterdashers. On the other hand a thing like that if it catches the eye of the PUNCH man, for example, may be your making." He went off into a lengthy speculation of why the House had come to like an originally unpopular Irishman named Biggar.... The opening of Parliament gave me some peculiar moods.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The New Machiavelli