half-sheepish

Updated: May 29, 2025

A shabbily dressed phrenologist laid his hand on every head which would bend, with half-conceited, half-sheepish expression, to the trial of his skill. Knots of people gathered here and there to discuss points of theology. A bereaved lover was seeking religious consolation in Butler's Analogy, which he had purchased for that purpose.

Margaret Fuller - Summer on the Lakes, in 1843