mud-and-stone-walled

Updated: May 7, 2025

His men tugged the weary animals along behind him, through the gap under the arch and along an almost interminable, smelly maze of alleys whose sides were the walls of square stone towers, or sometimes of mud-and-stone-walled compounds, and here and there of sheer, slab-sided cliff. At intervals they came to bolted narrow doors, that probably led up to overhead defenses.

Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles