hang-in-the-wind

Updated: December 27, 2025

Who made you a prophet, you scurvy, hang-in-the-wind, croaking, white-livered son of a corby-crow?" "Heaven help us, Admiral Hawkins, who has put fire to your culverins in this fashion?" said Lord Howard. "Who? my lord! Croakers! my lord!

Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth