bethinned

Updated: July 28, 2025

So laborious their avocations, that none could discharge them for more than a twelvemonth, at the end of that period giving up the ghost out of pure exhaustion of the locomotive apparatus. It was this constant drain upon the stock of masculine old age in the glen, that so bethinned its small population of gray-beards and hoary-heads.

Herman Melville - Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I