cringe-and-look-up-at-you

Updated: June 1, 2025

He was a small, scraggy man, painfully fair, with a big, baby-like head, vacant watery eyes, long thin hairy hands, that felt like pieces of damp seaweed, and an apologetic cringe-and-look-up-at-you manner. He professed to have forgotten who he was and all about himself. The Oracle was deeply interested in this case, as indeed he was in anything else that "looked curious."

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils