Word: riderhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Dickens, in chapter 3, vol. 2 of Our Mutual Friend asks the same question. Rogue Riderhood, apparently drowned, is in the hands of the physicians. Dickens comments...
...gone for good, Mr. Riderhood, it would be something to know where you are hiding at present. This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. If you are gone for good, Rogue, it is very solemn, and if you are coming back, it is hardly less so. Nay, in the suspense and mystery of the latter question, involving that of where you may be now, there is a solemnity even added to that of death, making us who are in attendance alike afraid to look...
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