a-stoop

Updated: May 20, 2025

Black strode to look, Hogarth a little behind him: and at the instant when the officer was a-stoop to lift the spade, Hogarth took the vials from his breast, and laid them upright in the little pocket of Black's tunic, near his bayonet-sheath and cartridge-box, above the belt.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Lord of the Sea