"Incumbition" Quotes from Famous Books
... thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get ... — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne |