horse-hair-stuffed

Updated: May 20, 2025

Bensington sat at his window on a hard horse-hair-stuffed arm-chair, covered by a grubby antimacassar that had given a touch of social distinction to the Skinners' sitting-room for many years. His unaccustomed rifle rested on the sill, and his spectacles anon watched the dark bulk of the dead rat in the thickening twilight, anon wandered about him in curious meditation.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth