arms'-reach

Updated: May 28, 2025

Of a rare type was Sofia in Andalusia, where nearly all are dark, for she was a true rubia, blue of eye, fair of skin, and with hair of the wondrously changing tints of a cooling iron ingot. And now here was Mauro, just back from Sevilla, almost within arms'-reach of his divinity, and yet not free to seek her.

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier