cotton-and-wool

Updated: June 11, 2025

I am a business man myself, and can readily understand your motives;" and he turned on his heel and strode from the room, leaving Miss Bently ill at ease. The young man's first expression of having received, as it were, a staggering blow, and then his bitter satire, made an impression on her cotton-and-wool nature, and for a time her proceedings with Mr.

Edward Payson Roe - Opening a Chestnut Burr

You are a MAN. Our dominie up at Forestville was only a minister." "I have my share of human nature, Roger, and am glad of it, for I know from experience just how you young fellows feel. But it involves many a big fight. Christian principle doesn't mean a cotton-and-wool nature, or a milk-and-water experience, to put it in a homely way.

Edward Payson Roe - Without a Home