long-strides

Updated: May 28, 2025

The point of Elmer's satire lay in the fact that Steven was usually to be seen either walking very slowly, head down, lost in abstraction; or when aroused to a sense of present necessity going with long-strides as if intent on catching up with the times without further delay. Very often, too, he might be seen running across the school playground, his hand up to those elusive glasses of his.

J. D. (John Davys) Beresford - The Wonder