tigribus

Updated: May 24, 2025

Now, you will laugh when I tell you positively, that within a twelvemonth I have heard called the banns of "John Smasher and Mary Smallbones;" no doubt, by this time they are "marrow bones and cleaver," what else could be expected? Did you never note how it has puzzled curates to read the ill-assorted names? "Serpentes avibus geminantur, tigribus agni."

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843