loosely-swung

Updated: June 13, 2025

Here she was with all that expert formality which, in the old days, had been a reproach to his loosely-swung life and person, to his careless, almost slovenly but well-brushed, cleanly, and polished ease not like his wife, as though he had been poured out of a mould and set up to dry.

Gilbert Parker - You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 3.

Here she was with all that expert formality which, in the old days, had been a reproach to his loosely-swung life and person, to his careless, almost slovenly but well-brushed, cleanly, and polished ease not like his wife, as though he had been poured out of a mould and set up to dry.

Gilbert Parker - You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Complete