grit-laden

Updated: May 20, 2025

"We're all right," gasped Trent reassuringly, and choked violently as he inhaled a mouthful of grit-laden air. In the same instant, across the murk shot a broad beam of light from the open doorway. Behind it Sara could discern white faces peering anxiously Audrey's and Miles's, and, behind them again, loomed the heads and shoulders of others who had hurried to the scene of the catastrophe.

Margaret Pedler - The Hermit of Far End