"Unmodish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... constrict our planet's rotundity with any forty-minute girdle; for in these days of inflating crinoline and ever-increasing circumference of hooped skirts, it becomes us to leave our Mother Earth at least in the fashion, nor strive to reduce her to such unmodish dimensions that one may circumnavigate her in as little time, comparatively, as he may make the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various |
