"Slaw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... criticism that she would have written better if she had written half or a quarter as much as she did. She could not have written little; it is as natural and suitable for Tweed to "rin wi' speed" as for Till to "rin slaw," though perhaps the result—parallel to but more cheerful than that recorded in the old rhyme—may be that Till has the power not of drowning but of intoxicating two men, where Tweed can only manage one. ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
