bony-knuckled

Updated: May 22, 2025

She had come to the Magnifique at thirty-three, a plain, spare, sallow woman, with a quiet, capable manner, a pungent trick of the tongue on occasion, a sparse fluff of pale-coloured hair, and big, bony-knuckled hands, such as you see on women who have the gift of humanness. She was forty-eight now still plain, still spare, still sallow.

Edna Ferber - Cheerful—By Request