brown-fingered

Updated: August 10, 2026

But though I believed my brain thus occupied, my every sense hung upon the writing under the dry, bony hand, all brown-fingered with chemicals and cigarette-smoke. Our windows fronting on the dangerous foam, "Our open casements facing desolate seas Forlorn forlorn " Here again his face grew peaked and anxious with that sense of loss I had first seen when the Power snatched him.

Rudyard Kipling - Traffics and Discoveries