booze-bitten

Updated: May 14, 2025

"Not fo' no sich wage like you give." "Oh, you ain't, ain't you?" mocked Lund. He was standing with Rainey in the middle of the space they had cleared of gravel, the seamen lower down the beach, nearer the sea, their ranks compacted. "Why, you booze-bitten, lousy hunky, what in hell do you want? You never saw twenty dollars in a lump you c'u'd call yore own for more'n ten minnits.

(Joseph Allan) J. Allan Dunn - A Man to His Mate