haste-loving

Updated: May 24, 2025

Not the meanest mud-scow or harbour tug but would rather have a little mast and a bit of canvas in the fresh salt breeze than all the hundreds of land-born horse-powers and fire-driven cranks and rods that a haste-loving generation can cram into the belly of the poor craft.

F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford - Doctor Claudius, A True Story