What is "reefy"

Usage examples of "reefy".

Elmer Cowley THE UNTOLD LIE, concerning Ray Pearson DRINK, concerning Tom Foster DEATH, concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard SOPHISTICATION, concerning Helen White DEPARTURE, concerning George Willard INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe I must have been no more than fifteen or sixteen years old when I first chanced upon Winesburg, Ohio.

Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine.

Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years.

Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man.

The story of Doctor Reefy and his courtship of the tall dark girl who became his wife and left her money to him is a very curious story.

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon.

The tall dark girl came to see Doctor Reefy because she was in the family way and had become frightened.

After the tall dark girl came to know Doctor Reefy it seemed to her that she never wanted to leave him again.

Like all old-fashioned country practitioners, Doctor Reefy pulled teeth, and the woman who waited held a handkerchief to her teeth and groaned.

In the fall after the beginning of her acquaintanceship with him she married Doctor Reefy and in the following spring she died.

To Doctor Reefy, who without realizing what was happening had begun to love her, there came an odd illusion.

She walked as Doctor Reefy thought he had never seen anyone walk before.

Doctor Reefy did not see the woman he had held in his arms again until after her death.

She was hysterical, as was also Doctor Reefy, and did not want to continue the talk.

There was a candle on the dressing table by the door and Doctor Reefy sat in a chair by the bed.