wordier

Updated: August 24, 2026

I knew a Captain of artillery in Smith's division, who was wordier than Gratiano, and who exaggerated like Falstaff. But he was a lion in action, and at Lee's Mills and Williamsburg his battery was handled with consummate skill. From Trent's farm the roadway led by a strip of corduroy, through sloppy, swampy woods, to an open place, beyond a brook, where Smith's division lay.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War