tie-backs

Updated: May 6, 2025

Pretty presences in the tie-backs of the period were seen to flit before the home of virtuous poverty, hungering for any chance sight of him which his outgoings or incomings might give.

William Dean Howells - A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

Pretty presences in the tie-backs of the period were seen to flit before the home of virtuous poverty, hungering for any chance sight of him which his outgoings or incomings might give.

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship