pride-o'-the-mornin

Updated: May 28, 2025

Fog? A man like Jo Pomery isn' one to mistake a little pride-o'-the-mornin' for proper thick weather the more by token it's been liftin' this hour and more. But 'tis a likelier guess anyway, the Gauntlet being from foreign. 'Lost his bearin's, says you, and come, as you might say, slap through the Manacles; an' by accident, as you might say!

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sir John Constantine : Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756