oddly-trenchant

Updated: June 30, 2026

That little basement-room was not only the office in which Doctor LaTurque received professional calls, but it was also the sanctum in which were prepared most of the oddly-trenchant articles in the Scimetar, a quarterly medical and critical publication with a habit cutting as its name and a reputation dangerous enough to suit the most sensational fancy.

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