half-replaced

Updated: August 5, 2026

No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half-replaced and half-utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm! This came home to me when, two days later, I drove over with Flora to meet, as Mrs.

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw