gruff-mannered

Updated: July 10, 2026

A shabbily-lit glass door admitted us into a dreary saloon bar, where a hard-featured, gruff-mannered young countryman, after serving beer to two farm-labourers, admitted with apparent reluctance that beds were to be had by such as had "the price," but that, as to supper, well! supper was "over" supper-time was six-thirty; it was now seven-thirty.

Richard Le Gallienne - October Vagabonds