river-deep

Updated: May 16, 2025

Here was one of those lonesome stretches of the winding Mississippi, with wooded bank, sandbar, sky-high and river-deep loneliness. Carline, with alcoholic persistency, held to his scheme. He drank the liquor which he had salvaged in the riotous night. He thought he knew how to bring people to time, especially women.

Raymond S. (Raymond Smiley) Spears - The River Prophet