half-phantom

Updated: May 3, 2025

Some thousands of needy ineffectual men had been raked together to trail their spiritless misery through the West Eire with an appeal that was also in its way a weak and insubstantial threat: "It is Work we need, not Charity." There they were, half-phantom through the fog, a silent, foot-dragging, interminable, grey procession.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Tono Bungay