half-dolorously

Updated: June 21, 2025

"Right, sir," said Rugge half-dolorously, half-exultingly. "It was a Grand Concern, and might have done for the Bank of England! It swallowed up my capital with as much ease, sir, as I could swallow an oyster if there were one upon that plate!

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10