husbing

Updated: May 12, 2025

The woman withdrew about a dozen pins from her mouth and answered all in one breath: "She isn't called Best any longer; she married agen five year ago; second husbing, he died too; she doesn' live here any more." With this she stuck the pins very deliberately, one by one, in the bosom of her print gown, and plunged her hands into the wash-tub again.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts