flatter-looking

Updated: August 14, 2026

Then, on the greener and flatter-looking country in front, there seemed to extend a sort of whitish line something that I could not quite make out. At first I thought it must be a town in the distance, with its large white houses. In the blue of the evening I could not then discern that what I took to be houses were simply heaps of pipeclay.

Samuel Smiles - A Boy's Voyage Round the World