inter-mixed

Updated: May 3, 2025

I shall do better amongst other faces; and these familiar ones, it need hardly be said, will do just as well without me. A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter