conspicuously-forked

Updated: May 23, 2025

On my left, less than a dozen paces from me, there lay on the ground, on a clean patch beneath a conspicuously-forked hawthorn, a man's jacket and plumed hat. A lion playing with a lamb would not have given me pause more abruptly. I stole silently up to them.

George W. Gough - The Yeoman Adventurer