"Lustiness" Quotes from Famous Books
... refuse slates. On returning to his native parish he had brought back and retained the name of his profession, the parish register alone preserving his true name of Matthew Spry. He was a fervent Methodist—a local preacher, in fact—and was held in some admiration by "the people" for his lustiness in prayer-meeting. A certain intensity in his large grey eyes gave character to a face that was otherwise quite insignificant. You could see he ... — I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |