Word: gravedamp
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When Wolfe was at home, he thirsted for the far cities of the world; when abroad, he longed for home. From London in November he wrote: "If you have sat in the parlor reeking with its gravedamp chill, if then you go out into the steaming air into a street of villas, catch your bus and ride home through vast areas of drab brick, lightened by an occasional pub in which you see a few sodden wretches mournfully ruminant over a glass of bitter beer-if you have gone through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion...
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