Words at Play : A Guide to Surviving Winter
"Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside: candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. . . . "
— Confessions of an English Opium-eater, Thomas de Quincey
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