"Raree-show" Quotes from Famous Books
... there was another raree-show. The College skeleton—framework of a long-passed don, so tradition stated—had been, by help of a screwdriver and patience, untombed from its dusty resting-place at the top of the Hall staircase. It had been dressed in some flashy Scotch tweeds well known as belonging to the junior ... — The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne |