knife-in-his-boot

Updated: May 18, 2025

"He died this morning as you might say, in my arms, painfully, but in the faith, in the faith. A good fellow." "A lazy, cattle-stealing, knife-in-his-boot Dago." "You misjudge him. A really good fellow on better acquaintance." Annixter grunted scornfully. Sarria's kindness and good-will toward the most outrageous reprobates of the ranches was proverbial.

Frank Norris - The Octopus : A story of California