crownwise

Updated: June 22, 2025

John sat back a little, with both hands clasped over one gray-clad knee, and looked at her again in the light of that. "It's hard to realize, I know," she said apologetically. She lifted the wonderful braids and bound them crownwise around her head, tying the ends together behind as if they were pieces of ribbon, and tucking them under with a comb, from behind one ear.

Margaret Widdemer - The Wishing-Ring Man