well-and

Updated: May 19, 2025

In writing his study of Gilles de Rais he was not going to fall into the error of these bigoted sustainers of middle-class morality. With his ideas of history he could not claim to give an exact likeness of Bluebeard, but he was not going to concede to the public taste for mediocrity in well-and evil-doing by whitewashing the man.

J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans - Là-bas

So I only answered rather sharply: "I was listening to you." "Well-and what do you say?" inquired the old man. "Nothing." "Why are you rude to me? Is it the right thing to be rude to a man older than yourself?" I was silent, acknowledging in my heart that it really was not the right thing. "Won't you have something more to eat?" continued the old shepherd. "No, I can't eat any more."

Maksim Gorky - Creatures That Once Were Men