inbreedings

Updated: June 9, 2025

But Tom was not degenerate, even in the sense of those who thought he should have called out and shot the younger of the Farleys. It was in him to kill or be killed, quite in the traditional way: that grim gift is in the blood as the wine is in the grape to stay unless you shall water it to extinction with many base inbreedings. Nor was the spur lacking.

Francis Lynde - The Quickening