shame-struck

Updated: May 2, 2025

He was clean shaven, for his mouth was too good to cover large, flexible, and sensitive, with a kindly human softening at either corner which with his brown sympathetic eyes had drawn out many a shame-struck sinner's secret. Two masterful little bushy side-whiskers bristled out from under his ears spindling away upwards to merge in the thick curves of his brindled hair.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round the Red Lamp