sad-clothed

Updated: May 28, 2025

He stopped abruptly for the door opened; and Guy had too much good taste and good feeling to discuss our riches before Maud's poor governess the tall, grave, sad-looking, sad-clothed Miss Silver; the same whom John had seen at Mr. Jessop's bank; and who had been with us four months ever since we came to Beechwood.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman

There an elbow, there a withered arm, a fist clenched in agony, seemed protruding from the sombre, sad-clothed trees, so weirdly knotted and twisted were the old cinder-hued boughs. As we neared the river we could hear it rushing by long before we could see it, so thick was the undergrowth that hung low over it.

Victoria Cross - Five Nights