"Polysyllabical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the reader to let me pass from this sad portion of my history, and for the full expression of my mingled rage, contempt, disappointment, and sorrow, let me beg of him to receive instead, what a learned pope once gave as his apology for not reading a rather polysyllabic word in a Latin letter—"As for this," said he, looking at the phrase in question, "soit qui'l dit," so say I. And now ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever |
