gap-teeth

Updated: June 24, 2025

There, in the porch, in the bright sun, where she stood not an hour ago in all her beauty and grace, stands a hideous, old savage, black as Tophet, grinning; showing the sharp gap-teeth in her apish jaws, her lean legs shaking with old age and rheumatism.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn