death-visited

Updated: June 15, 2025

She was so ill, so weary, that the mere thought of being still again even in the death-visited home was a relief, and she was really too much worn out to feel very acutely while they drove through the familiar streets. At last, early in the cold, new year's morning, they were set down in Guilford Square, at the grim entrance to Persecution Alley.

Edna Lyall - We Two, a novel

He was very diffident; though longing to see Erica, he would yet have given anything to be able to transfer his work to his father. This, however, was of course impossible. Strange though it might seem, he the most unsuitable of all men in his own eyes was the man singled out to bear this message, to go to the death-visited household.

Edna Lyall - We Two, a novel