asement

Updated: July 23, 2025

The sargeant read me the chapter about him, the night before my christening, and a mighty asement it was to listen to anything from the book.” “Old John and Chingachgook were very different men to look on,” returned the hunter, shaking his head at his melancholy recollections. “In the ‘fifty-eighth war’ he was in the middle of manhood, and taller than now by three inches.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers