rude-handed

Updated: July 23, 2025

Was not this a more serviceable and practical faith than that of these loud-voiced, rude-handed Lutherans among whom he lived; men who elected to cast aside this armour and trust instead to a buckler forged by their faith and prayers yes, and to give up their evil ways and subdue their own desires that they might forge it better?

Henry Rider Haggard - Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch