"It is better than your Excellency would enjoy on the scaffold," Pithily answered the servant; and the master made no further complaints.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Indeed, he was more than a husband: he was, as an intimate friend once Pithily remarked, a very mother to her.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
As Cyrus Pithily expressed it, "Thar hain't but only fo'teen of us settin' down ter eat when everybody's home."
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck