stomach-ravishing

Updated: May 26, 2025

I regarded their performance as a species of duet; and the raw materials, ranged in the sand about the fire, were the keys. Frank touched this, Charley touched that, and over the fire the music grew perfectly stomach-ravishing! We had bought with much care all, or nearly all the ordinary cooking-utensils. These the usurpers scorned.

John Gneisenau Neihardt - The River and I