wish-to-seem-wise

Updated: June 9, 2025

The third is put wish-to-seem-wise on the shelf And keep your eventual plan to yourself. Giving heed to the three with your voice and eyes level You can turn the last trick by out-trumping the devil. "Be discreet, Blaine please be discreet!" Meanwhile, Gungadhura was not inactive, nor without spies of his own, who told him more or less vaguely that trouble was cooking for him in the English camp.

Talbot Mundy - Guns of the Gods