dark-arrayed

Updated: April 30, 2025

Nervously in a sort of frenzy, we might almost say she began to busy herself in arranging some children's playthings, and other little wares, on the shelves and at the shop-window. In the aspect of this dark-arrayed, pale-faced, ladylike old figure there was a deeply tragic character that contrasted irreconcilably with the ludicrous pettiness of her employment.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - House of the Seven Gables