hopestills

Updated: June 12, 2025

From the other end of this wand of office depended a long foxtail, or a hare's-foot, which he softly thrust in the faces of the sleeping Priscillas, Charitys, and Hopestills, and which gently brushed and tickled them into reverent but startled wakefulness.

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England