half-solemnized

Updated: August 5, 2026

I judged they must be bombarding the outer forts, and once there came a loud explosion and a red glare as if a magazine had suffered. It was a sound I had not heard for five months, and it fairly crazed me. I remembered how I had first heard it on the ridge before Laventie. Then I had been half-afraid, half-solemnized, but every nerve had been quickened.

John Buchan - Greenmantle