ill-nourished-looking

Updated: August 11, 2026

There were a number of ill-nourished-looking daughters, sensible and economical in their costume, the younger still with long, brown-stockinged legs, and the eldest present there were, we discovered, one or two hidden away displaying a large gold cross and other aggressive ecclesiastical symbols; there were two or three fox-terriers, a retrieverish mongrel, and an old, bloody-eyed and very evil-smelling St.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Tono Bungay