stranglulation

Updated: June 17, 2025

The good dame of the house, with an enormous cap, enormous petticoats, enormous earrings, and all the glaring good-humour of a countenance of domestic plenty and power, came to meet us on the threshold; and her reception of me was ardent, to the very verge of stranglulation.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844