“His heart is like a maggot-eaten nut:
There's nothing in it; but 'tis closely shut.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(1st October 1831) Epigram of a Miser
The London Literary Gazette, 1831
“Walking about? With a hole in his forehead full of maggots" "Aye. It were like a damn fisherman's tub.”
Joseph and Walter
Nineteen Twenty-One (2001)
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