hip-shotten

Updated: May 17, 2025

Moving up the streets, in dust and mud-puddle, you see shabbily ambitious churches, with wooden towers; hotels, the curbs whereof are speckled with human blemishes, sustaining like hip-shotten caryatides the sandstone-wooden columns.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War