Day 909: demur

The lawyer requested a break in the court case, but the judge demurred.

Artwork of the day
The Court House, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro
Date: 1873

Word of the day
demur: to express disagreement or refuse to do something

Quote of the day 
I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita’s absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita