liverishness

Updated: May 15, 2025

His features, coloured, as from a deep liverishness, were thick, like his body, and not ill-natured, except for a sort of anger in his small, rather piggy grey eyes. He said in a voice permanently gruff, but impregnated with a species of professional ingratiation: "Ye-es? Whom 'ave I ?" "Mrs. Fiorsen." "Ow!"

John Galsworthy - Beyond