stramming

Updated: June 4, 2025

I 'd no call to grow such stramming great things in my piece annyway, 'ating up all the goodness from me beautiful cabbages." That afternoon the reunited friends sat banqueting together and keeping an eye on the road. They had so much to talk over and found each other so agreeable that it was impossible to dwell with much regret upon the long estrangement.

Sarah Orne Jewett - The Queen's Twin and Other Stories