law-guarded

Updated: May 4, 2025

But even so, she was conscious dimly but yet conscious of a feeling of relief that they had come at last close to the end of the heath, that there was the faint glow of lights dimly observable through the enfolding mist, and that there was the rumble of wheels, the pulse of life, the law-guarded paths of the city's streets beyond.

Thomas W. Hanshew - Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces