R. L. Stevenson

Cited as R. L. Stevenson. — 12 quotations

Babel

The grinding babel of the street.

Clachan

Sitting at the clachon alehouse.

Echo

Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

Feck

He had a feck o' books wi' him.

Forego

[He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit.

Heap

I have noticed a heap of things in my life.

Hipped

When we are hipped or in high spirits.

Hurtle

Down the hurtling cataract of the ages.

Parget

The pargeted ceiling with pendants.

Starshine

The starshine lights upon our heads.

Stomachy

A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety.

Strath

The long green strath of Napa valley.