gilt-and-red

Updated: May 8, 2025

This was my feeling as the Judge arranged the chess problem on the board above the gilt-and-red Turkish slippers on the feet of the thing's shapeless cotton-stuffed legs, and briefly described the point to be gained by the Sheik in the series of moves which he was to begin and the success of which I was to combat.

Richard Washburn Child - The Blue Wall: A Story of Strangeness and Struggle