tiptoe-stretch

Updated: April 5, 2025

So low it is, that I could easily touch the ceiling, and might have done so without a tiptoe-stretch, had it been a good deal higher; and this humility of the chamber has tempted a vast multitude of people to write their names overhead in pencil.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches: A Series of English Sketches

So low it is, that I could easily touch the ceiling, and might have done so without a tiptoe-stretch, had it been a good deal higher; and this humility of the chamber has tempted a vast multitude of people to write their names overhead in pencil.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863