half-rolled-up

Updated: May 13, 2025

If you do, he has got you, or you haven't got him. Apparently they had pretty well got her before she could quite roll up, and in a half-rolled-up condition she was doing her best to meet the jabs of five pairs of gnawing, cold-chisel, incisor, yellow-rats' teeth at once.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild