brown-stony

Updated: February 1, 2026

One bitterly cold night in February Roland returned to Lanhearne House in a particularly unhappy mood. He had been down-town as far as Twenty-third Street, and had been subjected to all the depressing influences of the cold, brown-stony city, swept by that most cruel of winds the east wind which comes with a thaw.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - A Singer from the Sea