tongue-gymnastics

Updated: May 4, 2025

He leaves us his contemporaries, and goes a thousand years off to talk to us, which he does by aid of these tongue-gymnastics and extraordinary compounds prides himself upon it, too, as if it were a great thing to disguise yourself, and mutilate the conversational currency. Sop. Well, to be sure, this is a serious case; we must do all we can for him.

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