irksome-than

Updated: June 7, 2025

Better, he thought, that they who received the pay of the Government, for upholding its interests and dignity, should be subject to a frequent recurrence of duty not in itself particularly irksome-than that an important post the nucleus of the future prosperity of the State should be perilled by the absence of that vigilance which ought to characterize the soldier.

John Richardson - Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare