round-skulled

Updated: July 1, 2026

Wild-flowers are abundant and various on these islands; the bayberry-bush is plentiful on Smutty Nose, and makes the hand that crushes it fragrant. The hotel is kept by a Prussian, an old soldier, who fought at the Battle of Waterloo. We saw him in the barn, a gray, heavy, round-skulled old fellow, troubled with deafness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.