forward-curling

Updated: May 20, 2025

Derrick with her wide-opened eyes, that so easily took on a look of uneasiness, of innocence, of anxious inquiry, her face still pretty, her brown hair that still retained so much of its brightness spread over her chair back, drying in the sun; Magnus, erect as an officer of cavalry, smooth-shaven, grey, thin-lipped, imposing, with his hawk-like nose and forward-curling grey hair; Presley with his dark face, delicate mouth and sensitive, loose lips, in corduroys and laced boots, smoking cigarettes an interesting figure, suggestive of a mixed origin, morbid, excitable, melancholy, brooding upon things that had no names.

Frank Norris - The Octopus : A story of California