seven-and-a

Updated: May 8, 2025

But the old lady, invincible after seven-and-a- half decades spent in the hard acquirement of wisdom, will not be reassured. She is not alarmed, but she will not be reassured. She treats the two men with affectionate malice as children. She knows that "those birds" that is to say, the Germans will never be beaten, because they are for ever capable of inventing some new trick.

Arnold Bennett - Over There : War Scenes on the Western Front