besotted-looking

Updated: May 21, 2025

"I was sure of it," the boy exclaimed as his eyes encountered an abject, huddled-up figure seated next a ragged, besotted-looking tramp. "Sure of what?" demanded Harry. "Why, that Oyama was the man who stole the papers from the Southern Cross." "Well?" "Well, there he is now."

John Henry Goldfrap - The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash : or Facing Death in the Antarctic

Then the poor rachitic girls displaying their waxen complexions and slender necks eaten into by sores; the yellow-faced, besotted-looking women in the painful stupor which falls on unfortunate creatures devoured by cancer; and the others who turned pale, and dared not move, fearing as they did the shock of the tumours whose weighty pain was stifling them.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete

Then the poor rachitic girls displaying their waxen complexions and slender necks eaten into by sores; the yellow-faced, besotted-looking women in the painful stupor which falls on unfortunate creatures devoured by cancer; and the others who turned pale, and dared not move, fearing as they did the shock of the tumours whose weighty pain was stifling them.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4

Then the poor rachitic girls displaying their waxen complexions and slender necks eaten into by sores; the yellow-faced, besotted-looking women in the painful stupor which falls on unfortunate creatures devoured by cancer; and the others who turned pale, and dared not move, fearing as they did the shock of the tumours whose weighty pain was stifling them.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris