peasant-monk's

Updated: September 19, 2025

Men fought then with bludgeons; they fight now with dainty polished daggers, dipped in cold, colourless poison of sarcasm. Perhaps there was less malice in the rougher old way than in the new. The faults are there, and nobody who is not a fool would think of painting that homely Saxon peasant-monk's face without the warts and the wrinkles.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts