much-diluted

Updated: May 16, 2025

He was "pals" in ten minutes; in fifteen, from his eminence on the deckhouse, with a biscuit in one hand and a tumbler of much-diluted Hollands in the other, he gazed down at his erstwhile beach fellows with almost the disdainful wonder of a tourist from a white ship's rail.

- The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story