neat-whiskered

Updated: May 20, 2025

That would have been an odd mixture for the same army; but we have an odder, when the neat-whiskered clerk from behind the dry-goods counter in this city the rough fisherman from Cape Cod the lumberman from the forests of Maine and the long, gangling squirrel-hunters from the wilds of Wisconsin, all meet together to fight for the same cause." "True," said Harding "true.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862