"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."


Volume I, page 267. - Lady Holland's Memoir (1855) - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Sydney Smith Quotes

Heat, ma'am! I said; it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Heat, ma'am! I said; it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Heat, ma'am! I said; it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Heat, ma'am! I said; it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.