ground-quality

Updated: February 17, 2025

Avice, the departed one, though she had come short of inspiring a passion, had yet possessed a ground-quality absent from her rivals, without which it seemed that a fixed and full-rounded constancy to a woman could not flourish in him. Like his own, her family had been islanders for centuries from Norman, Anglian, Roman, Balearic-British times.

Thomas Hardy - The Well-Beloved