for-nothings

Updated: June 25, 2025

With a fire too bright for his years this old gentleman, with fierce white moustache and imperial, had turned on them, calling them good- for-nothings and sons of pigs. Conyngham rode up just in time to see the ruffians rise as one man and rush at the victim of their humour.

Henry Seton Merriman - In Kedar's Tents