"Starchness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I bore my new dignities with an air of modest meekness. A certain degree of starchness is indispensable for a railway director, if he means to go forward in his high calling and prosper; he must abandon all juvenile eccentricities, and aim at the appearance of a decided enemy to free trade in the article of Wild Oats. Accordingly, as the first step towards ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various |
