ragged-pinioned

Updated: June 14, 2025

Lo! on a stormy sea a boat, and in the boat two wrapped in each other's arms, the priest and the royal woman, while over them like a Vengeance, raw-necked and ragged-pinioned, hovers a following vulture, such a vulture as the goddess wore for headdress. That picture fades from its burning frame, leaving the vast sheet of fire empty as the noonday sky. Then another forms.

Henry Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She