by-hints

Updated: June 1, 2025

How personal he was becoming, too!... No long bursts of declamation, but dramatic dialogue and interrogation, by-hints, and unexpected hits at one and the other most commonplace soldier's failing.... And yet each pithy rebuke was put in a universal, comprehensive form, which made Raphael himself wince which might, he thought, have made any man, or woman either, wince in like manner.

Charles Kingsley - Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face