cringed-up

Updated: May 16, 2025

They were dizzily aware of shouted orders, the creaking of the toiling, slipping ropes, little jolts and stoppages, two hundred eyes blinking up, not seeing their cringed-up limbs unnecessary cautious: for the nearer they descended to-ward the half-light, the surer did the area of the lorry make their invisibility.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Lord of the Sea