wooried

Updated: May 14, 2025

Boden turned a humorous eye, first to the great house basking in the sunshine, then to his hostess. "Not yet. But you're doomed. As the old Yorkshireman said to his son, when they were watching the triumphs of a lion-tamer in the travelling menagerie that 'genelman's to be wooried soom day. When the real Armageddon comes, it'll not find you in possession. You'll have gone down long before."

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Mating of Lydia