spite-wall

Updated: June 5, 2025

He knows the town, indeed, better than most of us, having a kind of stone-age knowledge of it the fundamental things men build in when they set about building permanently. "And that is what you might call a spite-wall," said he, showing me a long wall leading between two shady homes, making one of them a prison on the south, and the other a prison on the north.

David Grayson - Great Possessions