unhicky

Updated: May 23, 2025

Have I not buried as full-fed and promising a gelding this morning, as ever paced a pavement, and has any man heard a complaint from my lips? I know how to meet losses, I hope; and so no more of an unhicky purchase." "Truly, if it be not for trade, there is little in common between the mariners of the brigantine and Alderman Van Beverout."

James Fenimore Cooper - The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas