Words of the Day 7/7/10

flesh-spades

-those digging things on our fingertips, our fingernails

But, though tranquillity was restored abovestairs, it was not so below; where my landlady, highly resenting the injury done to the beauty of her husband by the flesh-spades of Mrs. Honour, called aloud for revenge and justice.

—The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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