nid-nodded

Updated: June 17, 2025

It used to be a little embarrassing to me at first to see myself surrounded by the vacant waxen faces staring at us, with every variety of smirk and bland fatuous expression: the flaxen heads nid-nodded over open lesson-books, propped up in limp, leathery arms.

Rosa Nouchette Carey - Esther : a book for girls