half-aninch

Updated: June 24, 2025

In features he was hardly handsome, but a kindly pleasant looking face made ample atonement for want of beauty. He was dressed in knee-breeches, and a great blue coat, with brass buttons, too large even for him, was topped by a broad-brimmed beaver hat, with fur on it half-aninch long.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn