self-propelment

Updated: May 6, 2025

What she got: this was all that people looked at here, and according to this she had well managed her affairs, snug in the snugness of the horse-leech's daughters. She had been all for the walled little island, as she had heard it called, the island of the upward bound, where self-propelment was the test of right or wrong, and a marriage well above her the touchstone of a girl's sound morality.

Henry Sydnor Harrison - V. V.'s Eyes