bull-faces

Updated: November 22, 2024

I pleaded, I argued, I spoke of the English hospitality and the fellowship of brave men, but I might as well have been addressing the two great wooden clubs which stood balanced upon the floor in front of me. There was no sign of sympathy upon their bull-faces. 'Business is business, mounseer, the old trainer repeated.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard