The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (…

Charles Lamb
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy. ✨ Charles Lamb (1828). Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine, p.195
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