raw-head-and-bloody

Updated: June 21, 2025

And Mary turned out of the house, which had been HIS home, where HE was loved, and mourned for, into the busy, desolate, crowded street, where they were crying halfpenny broadsides, giving an account of the bloody murder, the coroner's inquest, and a raw-head-and-bloody- bones picture of the suspected murderer, James Wilson. But Mary heard not; she heeded not. She staggered on like one in a dream.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton