coin-littered

Updated: June 13, 2025

This fellow painfully scrambled to his feet, and, breathing the most terrible threats in his native tongue, limped off. The boys stood alone on the card-strewn, coin-littered battle-ground. Dismay was pictured on their countenances. The crucial moment had come, and they were fairly caught in a trap from which there seemed to be no possible means of extricating themselves.

John Henry Goldfrap - The Border Boys Across the Frontier