burnt-into

Updated: May 11, 2025

"wi' her face a-covered up in that black cloth with holes in it." Oak, his features smudged, grimy, and undiscoverable from the smoke and heat, his smock-frock burnt-into holes and dripping with water, the ash stem of his sheep- crook charred six inches shorter, advansed with the humility stern adversity had thrust upon him up to the slight female form in the saddle.

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd