napkin-swathed

Updated: June 16, 2025

Debendra, hearing from afar the sound of their clumsy, clattering shoes, and seeing their black, napkin-swathed chins, leaped from the summer-house and fled in haste. Teowari and Co. ran some distance, but they could not catch him; yet he did not get off scot-free.

Bankim Chandra Chatterji - The Poison Tree: A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal