mouth-gash

Updated: May 3, 2025

And at the same time, on my inner sight, was grotesquely limned a picture of a brain pulsing savagely against the veneer of skin that covered that cleft of skull beneath the dripping sou'-wester. Then he controlled himself, the mouth-gash relaxed, and the suave and gentle film drew again across the eyes. "I mean, sir," he said softly, "that I am speaking out of a long sea experience.

Jack London - The Mutiny of the Elsinore