gold-bowed

Updated: May 15, 2025

Johnson, that, if ever she wore glasses, they should be gold-bowed; and I hope the manes of the dead were half as happy in these votive spectacles as the simple soul that offered them. She and her late partner were the parents of eleven children, some of whom were dead, and some of whom were wanderers in unknown parts.

William Dean Howells - Suburban Sketches