unprunable

Updated: May 21, 2025

'But oleanders, though they are such bulky shrubs, are so very easily wounded as to be unprunable giants with the sensitiveness of young ladies. Oh, here is Elfride! Elfride looked as guilty and crestfallen as Lady Teazle at the dropping of the screen. Mrs. Swancourt presented him half comically, and Knight in a minute or two placed himself beside the young lady.

Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes