"Overstretch" Quotes from Famous Books
... in passing away the long dull winter evenings. The hens, whose plumage we much admired, were let loose for some days, but they created such a nuisance with their early crowing, that they were soon condemned, like most hens, to suffer from an overstretch of neck. The screens and leopard-skins I brought back with me to England as a memento of my portrait-painting experiences in Corea, and these I ... — Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor |