half-die

Updated: May 24, 2025

If ye just about half-live, ye just the same as half-die; and if ye spend yer time half-dyin', some day ye turn in and die all over, without rightly meanin' to at all just a kind o' bad habit ye've got yerself inter. Gran'ther fell into a meditative silence for a moment. 'Jeroboam, he said that the evenin' before the battle of Lundy's Lane, and he got killed the next day.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Hillsboro People