[Ads-l] Long-haul trucker's lexicon + a surprise
Mark Mandel
thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 2 14:06:46 UTC 2017
But did "drawers" then have the potentially lascivious* sense?
Mark
* Love that word, so synesthetically suggestive.
On Jun 2, 2017 7:31 AM, "Stephen Goranson" <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
So of her curled fronts: Mrs. Glegg had doubtless the glossiest and
crispest brown curls in her drawers, as well as curls in various degrees of
fuzzy laxness...
Mill on the Floss
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