half-clinched

Updated: August 24, 2026

The sexton stood in a musing and yet a stern and defiant attitude, with the right elbow clasped in the left-hand palm, the right hand resting half-clinched upon the forehead, and the shoulders thrown back, as if ready for a blow. "What a very odd way to stand!" I said. "Yes, miss. And what he said was odder.

R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore - Erema — My Father's Sin