talk-wise

Updated: May 5, 2025

But, as the training went on and the talk went around, and other men went in all the wise ones, horse-wise, talk-wise, and otherwise the subtle fascination grew and, a month before the race, the same old madness glamoured every mind; the same old guiding star so often proved a spook-fire, but this time surely a star was leading, hypnotizing, shining just ahead.

Ernest Thompson Seton - The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country