rag-draped

Updated: May 27, 2025

"Child," he said brokenly, "you are the one bright spirit in this generation." But Tessibel did not understand. She went down the long flight of steps, and into the sun-lit street, with but a backward glance at the rag-draped basket she had left under the church window. Tessibel was a child again, a happy, free-hearted child.

Grace Miller White - Tess of the Storm Country

Old prematurely old, and young pitifully young; white and brown; fair and faded; sad and cynical; starved and prosper ous; rag-draped and satin-bedecked; together they wait their turn at judgment. Quietly moving back and forth before the prisoners' bench you see a woman, tall, graceful, black-gowned.

Rheta Childe Dorr - What eight million women want