lop-shouldered

Updated: May 25, 2025

One of the lop-shouldered, thatched huts stood on a hillock above the rest. When we had sweated up to this, a military order rang out in a cracked treble and some twenty brown scarecrows lined up in the shade of the eaves in a Guatemalan idea of order.

Harry Alverson Franck - Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond