squirelet

Updated: May 16, 2025

The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another!

- The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III