unhearty

Updated: May 16, 2025

My host, unseen within, turned off another Red Seal record he had just started, again to the accompaniment of the piano.... Kreisler's Caprice Viennoise.... Jarvis Alexander Mackworth came forth like a leisurely duck, waddling. He was very, very fat. He extended me a plump, white hand ... a slack hand-shake ... but not an unhearty one, rather a grip of easy welcome.

Harry Kemp - Tramping on Life: An Autobiographical Narrative

Surely and steadily the men enclosed behind the walls of the old Prison rose into the ranks of the utterly reliable, the indefatigable, the fearless and the fine, or sank into those of the shifty, unhearty, unreliable, and unworthy save the few who remained steadily mediocre, well-meaning, unsoldierly, fairly trustworthy a useful second line, but not to be sent on forlorn hopes, dangerous reconnoitring, risky despatch-carrying, scouting, or ticklish night-work.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life