acidulous-looking

Updated: July 6, 2025

Here an acidulous-looking gentleman in blue glasses, with bows of Berlin steel, who has taken a seat at the extremity of the front row, begins, at this early stage of the exhibition, to criticise. "The whole affair is a manifest catchpenny!" observes he, scarcely under his breath.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Main Street: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")