tophet-pit

Updated: May 27, 2025

For all which, I doubt it not, Sir Basil Hopwood and his scoundrelly Myrmidons are, at this instant moment, Howling. This place was a prison for Debtors as well as Criminals, and was to the full as Foul as the Tophet-pit at Aylesbury yonder.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...