hastily-cemented

Updated: May 11, 2025

During these years there had been frequent difficulties, the nature of which he had since learned entirely to comprehend; controversies with white-waistcoated proprietors of hotels and voluble tradespeople, generally followed by a severance of hastily-cemented friendships, and a departure of apparently unpremeditated abruptness.

Ernest Christopher Dowson - A Comedy of Masks: A Novel