froward-hearted

Updated: August 11, 2026

Arranged in a sort of frieze about the room were a series of framed scriptural texts, all of which served to remind one in no ambiguous terms of the wrath of God toward the froward-hearted and of the eternal punishment that awaits unrepentant sinners. And then, at intervals, the vindictive utterances were broken by pictures these, too, of a religious or pseudo-religious nature.

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself