half-wrathfully

Updated: July 28, 2026

The old men used to peep through the windows at the passing columns; and as their gates were wrenched from the hinges, their rails used to pry wagons out of the mud, their pump-handles shaken till the buckets splintered in the shaft, and their barns invaded by greasy agrarians, they walked to and fro, half-weakly, half-wrathfully, but with a pluck, fortitude, and devotion that wrung my respect.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War