sapient-looking

Updated: June 8, 2025

They stood in groups, discussing the recent call and the general management of the war with that spirit of independent criticism which so eminently characterizes the little democracies which make up our New England States. "The whole thing has been mismanaged from the first," remarked a sapient-looking man with a gaunt, cadaverous face, addressing two listeners.

Horatio Alger - Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp