leper-squint

Updated: May 13, 2025

I'll run it in my own way, and I'll run it without hanging on to a woman's skirt!" Dinky-Dunk stared at me as though he were looking at me through a leper-squint. But he had been brutal, was being brutal. And it was a case of fighting fire with fire. "Then you're welcome to the job," I heard him proclaiming out of his blind white heat of rage. "After that, I'm through!"

Arthur Stringer - The Prairie Mother