half-perceptibly

Updated: June 19, 2025

But we'll do it, sir, if it means downing them Germans; he said." Lorne's eyebrows half-perceptibly twitched. "They do 'sir' you a lot over there, don't they?" he said. "It was as much as I could do to get at what a fellow of that sort meant, tumbling over the 'sirs' he propped it up with. Well, all kinds of people, all kinds of argument, I suppose, when it comes to trying to get 'em solid!

Sara Jeannette Duncan - The Imperialist