eager-burning

Updated: May 12, 2025

These creatures here, if they're descended from the blacks, must have some story, some tradition of the white man. Of his mastery, his power! We'll use it now, by Heaven, as it never yet was used!" Then he began to count again; and so, tense, watching with eager-burning eyes and taut muscles, the man and woman made their way of frightful peril. A snuffling howl rose. "You will, will you?"

George Allan England - Darkness and Dawn