sorely-overdriven

Updated: December 21, 2025

"Better take in the to'garns'l, hadn't we, sir?" he continued, cocking his eye aloft to where in the dim light the spar could be faintly seen whipping and buckling like a fishing rod at every mad plunge and heave of the sorely-overdriven little vessel.

Harry Collingwood - A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron