half-scorched-looking

Updated: February 13, 2026

Her dark, half-scorched-looking hair was so abundant and rebellious, that it had to be all over compelled with gold pins. Its manipulation had neither beginning, middle, nor end. She ate daintily enough, but as if she meant to have a breakfast that should last her till luncheon when plainly the active little furnace of her life would want fresh fuel.

George MacDonald - There & Back