"Scabrousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has more than once adopted the principle that the Devil should not be allowed to have all the best tunes: and I remember in my youth an English religious novel of ultra-anti-Roman purpose, which, though, of course, dropping the "scabrousness," had, as I long afterwards recognised when I came to read La Religieuse, almost certainly borrowed a good deal from our ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury |
