neat-foot-and-pretty-ankle

Updated: May 19, 2025

She affected plum colour and had eyes like sloes the fashionable hue in the neat-foot-and-pretty-ankle period. The flames of the fire twinkled brightly over this battalion of deuced fine women, who were all, without one exception, the grandmothers in various degrees of the Prophet. When speaking of them, in the highest terms, he never differentiated them by the adjectives great, or great-great.

Robert Smythe Hichens - The Prophet of Berkeley Square