boy-sort

Updated: June 27, 2025

Dick's sewing heretofore has been of the common boy-sort wild oats." "No, Mr. Jack, I'm no magician. Dick is a very sensible fellow, and, like Richelieu in the play, he ekes out the lion's skin with the fox's." "I didn't come to add to the stores of your wisdom. This is the day set, as I understand it, for us to go to the prison and relieve the distress of the victims of war.

Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan - The Iron Game: A Tale of the War