zevaux

Updated: May 9, 2025

When the Horses were Lashed, to make 'em pull Lustily, the Fine Ladies at the windows fluttered their Fans, and, in their sweet little Court Lingo, cried out compassionately, "Oh, les pauv' Zevaux!" "Oh, the poor Dobbins!" They didn't say any thing about a poor Damiens.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...