insultedly

Updated: May 15, 2025

Over the side of the next mountain all Hans Andersen was stretched before them tracts of little country, little wooden houses with pointed roofs, little hills covered with squares of different coloured woods, and a blue river at the bottom of the valley, white with geese upon its banks. They held their open mouths insultedly in the air as the motor passed.

Enid Bagnold - The Happy Foreigner