dangerously-loaded

Updated: January 27, 2026

Then appeared the legion of interpreters, with their hair dressed like sphinxes, and with parrots tattooed on their breasts. Friends and slaves followed, all without arms, and in such numbers that they shouldered one another. The three long, dangerously-loaded barges advanced amid the shouts of the onlooking army. As soon as Gisco disembarked the soldiers ran to him.

Gustave Flaubert - Salammbo