super-hirundine

Updated: May 21, 2025

For if, by ill chance, and when time pressed, your House fell, have I not seen five neighborly Helpers appear next day; and swashing to and fro, with animated, loud, long-drawn chirpings, and activity almost super-hirundine, complete it again before nightfall?

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh