intersparsed

Updated: May 27, 2025

Then shee having forgotten by too much simplicity, what shee had spoken before of her husband, invented a new answer, and said that her husband was of a great province, a merchant, and a man of middle age, having his beard intersparsed with grey haires. In their returne homeward they murmured within themselves, saying, How say you sister to so apparent a lye of Psyches?

Lucius Apuleius - The Golden Asse