carrion-strewn

Updated: May 14, 2025

And they wander back again into the forest, away from the doleful ruin, carrion-strewn, to sulk each apart over some petty spoil which he has saved from the general wreck, hating and dreading each the sound of his neighbour's footstep. What will become of the forest children, unless some kind saint or hermit comes among them, to bind them in the holy bonds of brotherhood and law?

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge