torn-tit

Updated: May 8, 2025

The old gentleman, at every bit he put into his mouth, amused himself with saying, 'There goes two-pence, there goes three-pence, there goes a groat. Zounds, a man at these places should not have a swallow as wide as a torn-tit." But having been launched on a career of temporary extravagance, the honest citizen grew reckless.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London