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7 wordies list
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first listed by:
reesetee (23234 words)
appears in these lists:
Unsavoury Types, by bilby
Quaintnesses, by madmouth
wordhoard, by cornerhouse
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He approached Baryba and stared at him with his glassy eyes, booming away: 'Well, and we never hoped to see you again, my boy. People were saying you got to be a regular rakehell. We thought the woman would ride you to death. That Chebotarikha, she's a glutton, she could gobble a man, bones and all.'
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Provincial Tale, in The Dragon & Other Stories (tr. Mirra Ginsburg)