su-per-im-posed

Updated: May 19, 2025

French phrases are detestable where there is any English equivalent, but in this case there is none, so I will explain to the youngest reader who may speak only one language that the base of Peter was always clean. He received one full bath and several partial ones in every twenty-four hours, but su-per-im-posed on this base were evidences of his eternal activities, and indeed of other people's!

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - Mother Carey's Chickens