apparently-pressed

Updated: April 24, 2025

In attitudes worthy of Michelangelo they sprawled about the deck, groaning with anguish; huddled up in corners with a lemon-prophylactic against sea-sickness, apparently-pressed to faces which, by some subtle process of colour-adaptation, had acquired the complexion of the fruit; tottering to the taffrail. . . . There was a peasant woman dressed in black, holding an infant to her breast.

Norman Douglas - South Wind