beetling-browed

Updated: May 7, 2025

The speech struck me as oddly incongruous in parts of it, yet we had heard about the one thing we had heard in his favour that he was fond of his old mother, a good-natured, homely, kindly body, people said, who was rather unhappy among the Dawson riches, rather afraid of her granite-faced, beetling-browed husband. "No, I didn't look at them," I said. "And why not, pray?"

Katharine Tynan - The Story of Bawn