"Acritude" Quotes from Famous Books
... again, she returned to spread the fabulous result before her mother. There were sugars and spices and whatnot. And though—woe worth the day!—she found that the sum yielded only half what once it would, still, by drinking her own tea in its acritude, they would do admirably; for tea even little Jane required as her tonic, and without it felt like ... — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various |