elbow-joints

Updated: May 31, 2025

While the learned Professor muttered these metaphysical and philological reflections, the seaman was stripping himself to the waist. "That's the Burmese style, sir," he said, pointing to his shoulders and upper arm. These limbs were tattooed in a beautiful soft blue; the pattern was a series of diminishing squares, from which long narrow triangles ran down to the elbow-joints.

Andrew Lang - The Mark Of Cain