cement-barrels

Updated: May 12, 2025

Indeed, he paid no more attention to either of those distinguished diplomats than if they had been two cement-barrels standing on end. His face, too, had lost its irradiating smile; not a wrinkle or a pucker ruffled its calm surface. His clay-soiled hat was in his hand a very dirty hand, by the way, with the torn cuff of his shirt hanging loosely over it.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Tom Grogan