horrible-eyed

Updated: May 15, 2025

Or no Rather a coiled and quiescent father, horrible-eyed, lying in slimy rings at the foot of the tree, basilisk gaze fixed upward, while the enthralled bird fluttered hopelessly down, twig by twig, ever nearer and nearer. But no his metaphors were very bad; he was sentimentalizing, rhetorizing, a thing that he particularly abhorred.

Henry Sydnor Harrison - Queed