much-betarred

Updated: May 5, 2025

You'll get your strength best so, and there's nothing to be gotten by waking." He began to croon a many-versed psalm. I slept and waked, and slept again, and was waked by the light of a torch against my eyes. The torch was held by a much-betarred seaman, and by its light a gentleman of a very meagre aspect, with a weazen face and small black eyes, was busily examining my wounded shoulder and arm.

Mary Johnston - To Have and to Hold