fair-and-softy

Updated: June 15, 2025

"I don't hold with meaching ways at any time and in anybody," said the thin croak, made more husky by snuff, a pinch of which she held between thumb and finger, the joined digits punctuating her strictures. "And she's one of the fair-and-softy sort.

Marion Harland - The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)