testy-looking

Updated: June 10, 2025

Pictures hang on the walls, and the atmosphere of the whole place is one of courtesy and culture rather than of mere modern commerce. One of the portraits here is that of Mr. Brooke's granduncle a handsome, full-blooded, rather testy-looking old warrior, in the close-fitting scarlet uniform of the Prince Regent's time. "He ought to have been called Lord Baltimore," said Mr.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)