slippery-geared

Updated: June 4, 2025

The Captain of the Yard, the late Warden Atherton, the Prison Board of Directors to a man all believe, right now, in the existence of that dynamite that never existed save in the slippery-geared and all too-accelerated brain of the degenerate forger and poet, Cecil Winwood.

Jack London - The Jacket (Star-Rover)