vorocious

Updated: September 12, 2025

"Cultured Rapacicity," he tried. "Vorocious Return to the Heritage." He would expound them incidentally to his attendant apprentices. He had overheard a little lady putting her view to a friend near the Christchurch gate. The accent and intonation had hung in his memory, and he would reproduce them more or less accurately.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The History of Mr. Polly