knife-notched

Updated: June 16, 2025

The six fellows that sat around the wine-stained, knife-notched table of the Inn of the Seven Devils had little in them to interest a serious student of humanity, if such a one had chanced, for his misfortune, to find his way to that wicked wine-house on that wicked evening.

Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy - The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama