spatterment

Updated: September 13, 2025

I saw the shrewd and dauntless soul of Melicent. And so I loved you, and I laid my plan " She said, "You do not know of love " "Yet I have builded him a temple," the Jew considered. He continued, with that old abhorrent acquiescence, "Now, a temple is admirable, but it is not builded until many labourers have dug and toiled waist-deep in dirt. Here, too, such spatterment seemed necessary.

James Branch Cabell - Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship