elbow-hint

Updated: June 26, 2025

"Silence in line!" produced a greater clamor than ever, for each repeated the command to every other, sending the order along the ranks like a rolling fire, and not unfrequently enforcing it with the push of a corn-stalk, or a vigorous elbow-hint.

John Ludlum McConnel - Western Characters: or Types of Border Life in the Western States