needle-punctured

Updated: May 25, 2025

As wine oozes drop by drop from the needle-punctured wine-skin so shall you die, weeping, beseeching, drained to the white like a dripping calf in the shambles, yet at the same time reddened and shamed with the shame deadly and unnameable.

S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett - The Black Douglas