A strange thing-this complete confidence seemed to comfort Geissler wonderfully in his Threadbareness.
"Growth of the Soil"
Knut Hamsun
He saw its Threadbareness too, for he retorted- That's a verra auld argyment; in fac', it's clean stale, if it's no' rotten.
"St. Cuthbert's"
Robert E. Knowles