thirty-one-and-sixpenny

Updated: May 16, 2025

Another writer compares the roar to the sound of a vast mill; and this similitude, more flowery than poetical, is perhaps as good as that of the one who was in Aboukir Bay. To leave out Niagara when you can possibly bring it in would be as much against the stock-book of travel as to omit the duel, the steeple-chase, or the escape from the mad bull in a thirty-one-and-sixpenny fashionable novel.

Sir William Francis Butler - The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America