onclinched

Updated: May 19, 2025

"He was probably meanin' to put in there, and might 'a' come ashore may be, he was wild enough but he seen our men and that kind o' hindered him; he didn't want to turn round and put right back neither, lookin' as though he was scared, so he kep' on, and Sim said they watched 'em clean out o' sight; 'but, says he, 'I never seen a man turn whiter'n George Olver did for a minute, and then he onclinched his fist and went to work ag'in, harder than ever, for you can allays depend on Jim, somehow George Olver but he's a dreadful close-mouthed fellow!"

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene - Cape Cod Folks