"Obsidional" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle—'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.' For this opinion ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott |
