slow-talking

Updated: May 24, 2025

It was a country of lazy, slow-thinking, slow-moving, and slow-talking adventurers you will notice this ponderous, inevitable quality of rolling stones and though men talked with humor not too fine of "travelin' up Lone River for John's gel," not a man had got there. Perhaps the men knew John Carver for a coward, that most dangerous animal to meet in his own lair.

Katharine Newlin Burt - The Branding Iron