semirespectable

Updated: May 28, 2025

"They are known to me," replied Tarzan. "I wish to see Monsieur Rokoff on a little matter of business. If you can direct me to his lodgings I shall appreciate it." A few minutes later he bade the policeman adieu, and, with a slip of paper in his pocket bearing a certain address in a semirespectable quarter, he walked briskly toward the nearest taxi stand.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Return of Tarzan

Now we are assured that he never was a pirate, and never did bury any treasure, excepting a certain chest, which he was compelled to hide upon Gardiner's Island and perhaps even it was mythical. So poor Kidd must be relegated to the dull ranks of simply respectable people, or semirespectable people at best.

Howard Pyle - Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Now we are assured that he never was a pirate, and never did bury any treasure, excepting a certain chest, which he was compelled to hide upon Gardiner's Island and perhaps even it was mythical. So poor Kidd must be relegated to the dull ranks of simply respectable people, or semirespectable people at best.

Howard Pyle - Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main