hyper-critic

Updated: May 18, 2025

Otherwise," continued this hyper-critic, softening a little, "some of the chapters are amusing, and on the whole, it may be said to be rather that is not unpleasantly written." "I like your first and third volume, but not your second," squeaked out something intended to have been a woman, with shoulder-blades and collar-bones, as De Ville would say, most strongly developed.

Frederick Marryat - Newton Forster: The Merchant Service