saggings

Updated: May 3, 2025

The boy was at once swaddled and lost within their blue gulfs and vast saggings; and the left leg, too hastily rolled up, had descended with a distinctively elephantine effect, as Margaret had observed. Certainly, the Child Sir Lancelot was at least a sight. It is probable that a great many in that hall must have had, even then, a consciousness that they were looking on at History in the Making.

Booth Tarkington - Penrod

Also it brought us to five o'clock. Five hours!... I began to have queer sensations aches, pains, tremblings, saggings. Likewise misgivings! About this period I determined to see how close to the boat I could pull him. I worked. The word "worked" is not readily understood until a man has tried to pull a big broadbill close to the boat. I pulled until I saw stars and my bones cracked.

Zane Grey - Tales of Fishes