shamble-thills

Updated: May 31, 2025

And when a man on either side sank down with a hollow sound like a beast in shamble-thills, and the man in front fell over on his face without a sound, the multitude turned, broke into groups, fled, and disappeared in a moment like a whirl of snow which the wind canters down the street in a veering flurry. Then the gates shut to, and the deep lines of matchlock men were hidden from view.

S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett - Red Axe