hoarse-whistled

Updated: May 24, 2025

The salt tang of the sea was in his nostrils; greetings, many-keyed, hoarse-whistled by plying craft, were in his ears; creamy-foamed wakes of turbulent keels, swift-sent or laboring, boiled their swirling splendor against the black water.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes - The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On