out-of-elbow

Updated: May 17, 2025

Snawdor, half dragging, half pushing Nance, disappeared into the dark entrance of the tenement, breathing maledictions first against her charge, then against the tyranny of the law. If ever a place had a down-at-heel, out-of-elbow sort of look, it was Calvary Alley.

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice - Calvary Alley

He was now moving as in an Arabian Night's dream. In the front room was a sofa No, a divan, and on the divan the skin of a Polar bear sprawling. Rickman and Poppy sat on the top of the bear. Such a disreputable, out-of-elbow, cosmopolitan bear! His little eye-holes were screwed up in a wicked wink, a wink that repudiated any connection with his native waters of the Pole. The house was very still.

May Sinclair - The Divine Fire