impatiently-pulled-out

Updated: June 28, 2025

Some cursed the railroad company, some cursed the fate that had placed them there, some cursed their folly in leaving comfortable quarters in order to fast in the snow on Thanksgiving-Day. Presently the impatiently-pulled-out watches showed ten o'clock, and still it snowed.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861