swing-open

Updated: May 10, 2025

It falls me here to write of Chastity. The fayrest vertue, far above the rest.... A sudden rush of feet on the stairs, a rusty swing-open of the thin door, and a man thrust himself into the room, a man without a jerkin, panting, sobbing, on the verge of collapse. "Wessel," words choked him, "stick me away somewhere, love of Our Lady!"

F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald - Tales of the Jazz Age