eye-stab

Updated: June 20, 2025

Miss Brewster laughed derisively. "Don't let him discourage you, Herbert," she mocked. "Bitter Creek is in Wyoming or is it in Montana?" this with a quick little eye-stab for Lidgerwood, "and the name of Mr. Lidgerwood's refuge is Angels. Also, papa says there is a hotel there called the 'Celestial. Do you live at the Celestial, Howard?" "No, I never properly lived there.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western