fish-gnawed

Updated: May 21, 2025

Sleep is graceful, remember; death by drowning is generally ugly stiff, stark, hideous, eyeless, fish-gnawed a week after the event. But what does it matter? You've painted a great picture. That sea, with the circular swirl, as each wave goes back into the belly of the next, is well done; and those lumps of spume fluttering above watermark that was finely noted.

Eden Phillpotts - Lying Prophets