thirty-thousand-pounder

Updated: May 12, 2025

This little errant knight would take the thunder at a quarter of the price, and keep the Empire paralytic with change and fear of change as if the great Thirty-thousand-pounder himself were on Olympus. No. The tone of the A.D.C. is subdued. He stands in doorways and strokes his moustache. He nods sadly to you as you pass. His way with ladies is sisterly undemonstratively affectionate.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series