"Climacterical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the Bartons asking about your advent. In fact Barton's daughter is anxious for her Father's to be done, and done this year. He is now sixty-three; and it won't do, you know, for grand- climacterical people to procrastinate—nay, to proannuate—which is a new, and, for all I see, a very bad word. But, be this as it may, do you come down to Woodbridge this summer if you can; and that you can, I doubt not; since it is no great things out of your ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald |
