sort-o'-concluding

Updated: June 23, 2025

"The time must be found, and the gates be hung," interrupted the captain, too much accustomed to Joel's doubting, 'sort-o'-concluding manner, to be always patient under the infliction. "Not only the gates, but the palisades must be got out, holes dug, and the circumvallation completed." "It must be as the captain says, of course, he being master here. But time's precious in May.

James Fenimore Cooper - Wyandotte