twenty-times-told

Updated: May 16, 2025

He signified to the corporation and freeholders his intention of presenting his son, Lord George, and his desire that the latter should be elected their burgess; but he scarcely gave so much as a glass of beer to whet the devotedness of his adherents: and I, as I need not say, engaged every tavern in Tippleton in my behalf. There is no need to go over the twenty-times-told tale of an election.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon