Quotes from Wild Wales — George Borrow
1803–1881 England
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I never saw such a place for merched anllad [wanton women] as Northampton.
Wild Wales (1862)
'Scotland! a queer country that, your honour!' 'So it is,' said I; 'a queerer country I never saw in all my life.' 'And a queer set of people, your honour,' 'So they are,' said I; 'a queerer set of people than the Scotch you would scarcely seen in a summer's day.'
Wild Wales (1862)
Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.
Wild Wales (1862)