dead-and-alive-looking

Updated: May 3, 2025

This was the official building of the Juez de Paz, or rural magistrate; just now, however, it was closed, and with no sign of life about it except an old dead-and-alive-looking man sitting against the closed door, with his bare, mahogany-coloured legs stretched out in the hot sunshine. "This is a very fine thing!" exclaimed the officer, with a curse. "I feel very much inclined to let the men go."

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - The Purple Land