Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Miscellany look out!
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Jmh:
I came across this passage today in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s end, set around the period of World War I:
"There was in Edinburgh a society … where the ladies are all great ladies in tall drawing-rooms; circumspect yet shrewd; still yet with a sense of the comic; frugal yet warmly hospitable. It was perhaps just Edinburgh-ness … "
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted look out! tsuwm 05/18/00 08:42 PM Re: look out! jmh 05/19/00 08:15 AM Re: Edinburgh-ness paulb 05/26/00 12:11 PM Re: Edinburgh-ness jmh 05/26/00 12:30 PM Re: look out! paulb 05/20/00 11:56 AM Re: look out! Jackie 05/21/00 04:10 AM Re: garde vs. gardez tsuwm 05/21/00 04:43 AM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,350Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 845 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 22ddrinnan 1
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,549tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,918Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org