bowleggedness

Updated: May 4, 2025

I generally draw him off into a fight on Mr. Howell's, Thackeray or Scott." "She prefers me in armor," Cargill explained, "and on horseback. My intellectual bowleggedness, so to say, and my moral squint are less obtrusive at an altitude." Ida laughed appreciatively. "Your extraordinary choice of figures would distinguish you among the symbolists of Paris," she replied.

Hamlin Garland - A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West