base-torn

Updated: May 7, 2025

"How, base-torn and craven limbed!" cried the eldest, who had been a noted warrior in his day; "darest thou enter unsummoned amidst the secret councils of the wise men? Knowest thou not, scatterling! that the penalty is death?" "Slay me, if thou wilt," answered Morven "but hear!

Baron Henry Peter Brougham Brougham and Vaux - The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham