A Snippet of Something I'm Reading

From Love and Mr. Lewisham, p1 (introducing Mr. Lewisham's character):

"He was called 'Mr' to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as 'Sir'.

He wore ready-made clothes, his black jacket of rigid line was dusted about the front and sleeves with scholastic chalk, and his face was downy and his moustache incipient. He was a passable-looking youngster of eighteen, fair-haired, indifferently barbered and with a quite unnecessary pair of glasses on his fairly prominent nose -- he wore these to make himself look older, that discipline might be maintained."

I could go on, but that's a good stopping point; otherwise I'd end up copying the entire thing.

incipient moustache
quite unnecessary pair of glasses

I wish more authors today wrote like this. *sigh* I absolutely love H.G. Wells.

Other books you may know by him:

The Time Machine
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds

A few you should know, but probably don't:

The Wheels of Chance
A Modern Utopia
Ann Veronica
The New Machiavelli
The Shape of Things to Come

Complete list of his works, according to Wikipedia.

Read. Culturalize yourself. Enjoy.

No, that's not a real word. I just made it up. But if we keep using it, it could be one day. Such is the beauty (and downfall) of our fluid language.