If we have largely forgotten the physical discomforts of the itching, oppressive garments of the past ... then we have mercifully ...forgotten, too, the smells of the past, the domestic odours--ill-washed flesh; infrequently changed underwear; chamber-pots; slop-pails; inadequately plumbed privies; rotting food; unattended teeth; and the streets are no fresher than indoors, the omnipresent acridity of horse piss and dung, drains, the sudden stench of old death from butchers' shops, the amniotic horror of the fishmonger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills,... Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mormon colonization south of this point in early times was characterized as "going over the Rim," and in colloquial usage the same... phrase came to connote violent death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »