r-r-r-wretchedly

Updated: June 14, 2025

The professor next day took occasion to comment slightingly on our general performance, but "as to Mr. ," he added, derisively, "he did r-r-r-wretchedly." I sometimes wonder that we learned anything about "soldiering," but we did in a way.

A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan - From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life