ill-buried

Updated: May 1, 2025

He had come at that woman's call; he had hung round her; he had waited on her at her bidding; at her bidding he had sat down beside her; he had listened to her, attracted, charmed, delighted; he had talked to her in the low voice Anne knew. How could she tell what had or had not passed between them there, what intimacies, what recognitions, what resurrections of the corrupt, ill-buried past?

May Sinclair - The Helpmate

He pondered these matters as he ate, spinning out his exiguous meal to its uttermost crumb to make it as satisfying as possible. He saw his way at once to perfecting his cover. All about him where he sat, the grey rock pushed through a thin friable soil like the bones of an ill-buried skeleton.

John Oxenham - A Maid of the Silver Sea