clean-lipped

Updated: May 19, 2025

Parish Thornton reached for the pistol which he had laid on the mantel, but before he had gained the door he saw Dorothy flash past him, seizing his rifle as she went, and a few seconds later he heard the clean-lipped snap of its voice in a double report. "I got him," panted the young woman, as her husband reached her side. "Git down low on ther ground!"

Charles Neville Buck - The Roof Tree

There came a clatter of spasmodic hoof-beats, an erratic shower of sparks, a curse in clean-lipped decent Urdu; a grunt, a struggle, more sparks again, and then a thud, followed by a devoutly worded prayer that Allah, the all-wise provider of just penalties, might blast the universe.

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East