presbyterian-built

Updated: May 9, 2025

"It could not have been that his 'foreknowledge' was supernatural." "That no one can say, for Joe was presbyterian-built, as we say, kettle-bottomed, and stowed well. The truth was not discovered until ten years afterwards, when the old fellow got to be a regular cripple, what between rheumatis', old age, and steaming.

James Fenimore Cooper - Homeward Bound : or, the Chase