and-try

Updated: June 11, 2025

There is a wild scuffling, wild outcry. Women bite their lips and-try, with divine patience, to crush down all appearance of fear, and to keep their limbs from trembling; some unruly fellows are kept in check only by terror of the revolver; and the officers remember that their fair name and their hope of earthly redemption are at stake.

James Runciman - The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions: Joints In Our Social Armour