rope-knotted

Updated: May 21, 2025

Slowly, like the agonizingly slow plastic creep of metal under great pressure, the gorilla-faced giant was yielding. His dark skin became mottled. His breath came gaspingly. His rope-knotted arms slipped a little. But it was not in him to surrender, which might still have saved his life.

Roman Frederick Starzl - The Martian Cabal