halfable

Updated: May 3, 2025

But a man is a man, and the last thing to complain of is the exercise of his functions. And when I come round I went off to his lordship, as if I had heared his bell ring. All of us knew better than to speak till him beginning, for he were not what they now call 'halfable, but very much to the contrary.

R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore - Erema — My Father's Sin