destitute-looking

Updated: July 12, 2025

One day he was hung outside the window, and partly owing to the sun and fresh air, and partly because a woman was singing in the street, he began to carol his old song. "The woman was a street singer. She was even paler, thinner, and more destitute-looking than such women usually are. In some past time there had been beauty and feeling in her face, but the traces of both were well-nigh gone.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - The Brownies and Other Tales