wrankling

Updated: June 7, 2025

Yours is intended to instruct; and though it bites, it pleases at the same time: no fear of a wound's wrankling or festering by so delicate a point as you carry; not envenomed by personality, not intending to expose, or ridicule, or exasperate. The most admired of our moderns know nothing of this art: Why? Because it must be founded in good nature, and directed by a right heart.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2