o'er-busied

Updated: May 9, 2025

Again, a half-crazed sansculotte had won a girl and in token of triumph was spinning her body horizontally around like a top, upheld by the open palm of his huge right arm. But what might be this comic figure, quite unpartnered knocked and shoved from human pillar to human post winning the deep curses of the dancers, and their hearty wallops when not o'er-busied with Terpsichore?

Henry MacMahon - Orphans of the Storm