over-accuracy

Updated: May 25, 2025

Finical over-accuracy about the weather is likely to discourage a budding acquaintanceship. "Have one?" He extended a gemmed cigarette-case, and when, removing my pipe, I had declined in suitable terms, lighted up, himself. He then sat down upon the dryest portion of the bench not occupied by my person. "Whiplash win in the fi'th," he volunteered presently.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - From a Bench in Our Square