boar-backs

Updated: May 9, 2025

It was strange to see them in that wide-stretching valley, whence grey boar-backs of hills swelled up into the silence of the snow it was strange, I say, in that vast solitude, to see these two, mere dots on its bosom, circling round one another in fierce forgetfulness of the outside world, glaring and shifting their ground like cocks about to engage, and wholly engrossed by three scraps of orange-colour, invisible at fifty paces!

Stanley John Weyman - Under the Red Robe