twice-flung

Updated: June 13, 2025

Give me your hand!" He came to her, slowly. "There!" The Duke withdrew his fingers before she unclasped them. That twice-flung taunt rankled still. It was monstrous to have been called a snob. A snob! he, whose readiness to form what would certainly be regarded as a shocking misalliance ought to have stifled the charge, not merely vindicated him from it!

Sir Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story