hundredth-handed

Updated: August 17, 2026

I am not speaking of the average boy, such boys as make up the male mass of the world the undreaming, unthinking, plodding, drudging, sweating herd, whose few old commonplace, well-worn ideas don't possess the power of reproduction, and whose thoughts are thirteenth or thirteen hundredth-handed, and transmitted unimpregnated to other dullards, and whose life and spirit is that of the young animal merely but a real young man, one of possibilities, intended for a man, and not merely for a male, one in whom the primitive forces of nature are planted, and who may develop into a new driving or forming power.

A. G. Riddle - Bart Ridgeley: A Story of Northern Ohio