cowerdly

Updated: June 27, 2025

And they learnt the older ones to be deceitful and sly and cowerdly. Learnt 'em to use jest the same slang phrases and low language that they did; tell the same lies, and so they wuz a spilin' 'em in every way; spilin' their brains with narcotics, their bodies by neglect and bad usage, and their minds and morals by evil examples. You see some nurses are dretful good.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at Saratoga