much-reverenced

Updated: May 17, 2025

And then suddenly, out of the blur, and the dust, and the dizziness, and the half-blinding glare of lights, the figure of a Man loomed up directly and indomitably across the Youngish Girl's path a Man standing bare-headed and faintly smiling as one who welcomes a much-reverenced guest a Man tall, stalwart, sober-eyed, with a touch of gray at his temples, a Man whom any woman would be proud to have waiting for her at the end of any journey.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - The Indiscreet Letter