"Previousness" Quotes from Famous Books
... not altogether as brisk as bees, did the four Pickwickian shades assemble on a winter morning in the year of grace, 1896. Christmas was nigh at hand, in all its fin-de-siecle inwardness; it was the season of pictorial too-previousness and artistic anticipation, of plethoric periodicals, all shocker-sensationalism sandwiched with startling advertisements; of cynical ... — Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton |