pallid-globed

Updated: June 12, 2025

She sat glancing vaguely about the little sitting-room, dimly lit by the pallid-globed lamp, which left in twilight the outlines of the furniture, of his writing-table heaped with books and papers, of the tea-roses and jasmine drooping on the mantel-piece. How like home it had all grown how like home! "Lydia, what is wrong?" he repeated.

Edith Wharton - The Greater Inclination