appraisively

Updated: May 24, 2025

But with the transformation had come a battering down of doors in the house of the broader fellowship, and he laughed good-naturedly. "You caught me fairly," he acknowledged. "I thought I still had the place to myself." "But the chance?" persisted the big man, looking him over appraisively. "You don't look like a man who has had to hang round on the aidges hankerin' after things he couldn't get."

Francis Lynde - The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush