let's-have-a-look-at-it

Updated: May 4, 2025

And his lady, as they were able to see her at Bun Hill, was a weather-bitten goddess, as free from refinement as a gipsy not so much dressed as packed for transit at a high velocity. So Bert grew up, filled with ideals of speed and enterprise, and became, so far as he became anything, a kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-have-a-look-at-it and enamel chipping variety.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The War in the Air