tophetic

Updated: May 21, 2025

P. Bradford while Belinda Randall played and sang. Isaac brings you this, and will himself best tell you of himself. Burrill is well, and unites with me in remembrance to all who remember. Your friend, CONCORD, June 26th, 1844. These are Tophetic times. I doubt if the sturdy faith of those heroes, Shadrack and co., would carry them through this fervor unliquefied.

George William Curtis - Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis

The heat makes Helen languid and quiet. Indeed, the Tophetic weather has reduced us all to a semi-liquid state. Yesterday Helen took off her clothes and sat in her skin all the afternoon. When the sun got round to the window where she was sitting with her book, she got up impatiently and shut the window.

Helen Keller - The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy