ever-lawless

Updated: May 18, 2025

There were many things to interest them in this old trade route, had they been in a condition to take notice of them. Here and there along its course were the crumbling remains of ancient buildings, so old that no date could be assigned to them, but designed in some far-off civilisation to give the travellers shade from the sun or protection from the ever-lawless children of the desert.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Tragedy of the Korosko