grey-bound

Updated: June 28, 2025

But he looked such a boy, standing there with his hands in his pockets and that half-penitent, half-humorous look in his eyes, that you couldn't be angry. Harry laughed. "Upon my word, you're amazing!" "Oh! you'll get sick of me. It's all so selfish and slack, I know. But I struggled once I'm in the grip now." He talked about Borrow and displayed a little grey-bound "Walden" with pride.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Wooden Horse