"Orgillous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I dashed after him as best I might; and arriving on the other side of the bridge, I floundered out upon dry land, and continued the chase. The salmon, 'right orgillous and presumptive,' still kept the strength of the stream, and abating nothing of its vigour, went swiftly down the whirls; then through the Boat shiel, and over the shallows, till he came to the throat of the Elm Wheel, down which he darted amain. Owing to the bad ground, the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various |
