scaffold-floor

Updated: May 4, 2025

With a quick, keen sound, the steel became detached; it fell hurtling through the grooves; it struck something with a dead, dumb thump; a jet of bright blood spurted into the light, and dyed the face of an attendant horribly red; and Couty de la Pommerais's head lay in the sawdust of the pannier, while every vein in the lopped trunk trickled upon the scaffold-floor!

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War