untrig

Updated: May 7, 2025

For some time it was noticed that he had a down and thoughtful look, that his cleeding was growing bare, and that his wife kept an untrig house, which, it was feared by many, was the cause of Thomas going o'er often to the change-house; he was, in short, during the greater part of the winter, evidently a man foregone in the pleasures of this world, which made all that knew him compassionate his situation.

John Galt - The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder