oysterlike

Updated: May 2, 2025

The new inhabitant who came himself from a foreign land, or whose father or grandfather came has little claim to be called a Salemite; he has no conception of the oysterlike tenacity with which an old settler, over whom his third century is creeping, clings to the spot where his successive generations have been imbedded.

George Edward Woodberry - Nathaniel Hawthorne