ever-tense

Updated: May 21, 2025

These thefts were in the line of jewelry and the like; and were as daringly wrought as were the modest local operators' raids on ash-can and laundry. It is the easiest thing in the world to stir humankind's ever-tense burglar-nerves into hysterical jangling.

Albert Payson Terhune - Further Adventures of Lad