never-to-be-surpassed

Updated: June 19, 2025

There was still light enough in the western heaven to brighten faintly one side of the man's face, and to show against the trunk of the tree behind the admirable cut of his profile; also to reveal that the front of the manor-house, small though it seemed, was solidly built of stone in that never-to-be-surpassed style for the English country residence the mullioned and transomed Elizabethan.

Thomas Hardy - A Changed Man; and other tales