half-sickness

Updated: May 18, 2025

Manning, with the same high cheekbones, the yellow mole on the upper lip, the sorrowful brown eyes: dressed in tulle now, though, the angular arms and shoulders bare, and coated with chalk, a pat of rouge laid on each cheek: under the tulle-body the same old half-sickness; the same throbbing back-tooth threatening to ache.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864