drawer-of-the-long-bow

Updated: May 4, 2025

At home, during those first holidays, she gave her sister and brothers cold creeps down their spines, with her stories of the great doings that took place at school; and none of her class-mates would have recognised in this arrant drawer-of-the-long-bow, the unlucky little blunderbuss of the early days. On her return, Laura's circle of friends was enlarged.

Henry Handel Richardson - The Getting of Wisdom