half-blubbering

Updated: May 14, 2025

So to Bow-street we went, and found our man, to whom the farmer bowed with obsequiousness most unlike his usual burly independence. He evidently half suspected him to have dealings with the world of spirits: but whether he had such or not, they had been utterly unsuccessful; and we walked back again, with the farmer between us, half-blubbering

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography