"Formalize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... youthfullities—d'autant moins of dancing; that I have rumours of gout flying about me, and would fain coax them into my foot. I have almost tried to make them drunk, and inveigle them thither in their cups; but as they are not at all familiar chez moi, they formalize at wine, as much as a middle-aged woman who is beginning to just drink ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole |
