self-recoiling

Updated: June 9, 2025

Preston has an Americo-Grecian face, and is a 'grand-dame. She talks of the blessings of slavery, and of the vain and self-recoiling efforts of her mother, who liberated many slaves and educated more, to reduce the evil; and is full of the troubles and robberies of foreign house-keeping and of the gossip of the diplomatic circle.

E. W. (Edward William) Watkin - Canada and the States