parson-faced

Updated: May 28, 2025

But at that moment the door opened, and in came Johnnie, who had evidently also been employing the interval in refreshing himself, for he rolled like a ship in a sea. "Well," he said, "and who the deuce are you? Come get out of this, you Methody parson-faced clodhopper, you. Fairest Edithia, what means this?"

Henry Rider Haggard - Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life