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The Ingoldsby Legends by Rev R. H. Barham

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2.0

This is a slow read.


“It was Miss Simpkinson, who, deeply engaged in sipping her tea and turning over her album, seemed, like a female Chrononotonthologos, 'immersed in cogibundity of cogitation.”

Several of the metaphors are specific to the culture at the time. Several mentions of details pertaining to London.