shingle-hooded

Updated: June 5, 2025

This young lady relished highly, on occasions, the sense of being alone the absence of the whole family and the emptiness of the house. To-day, apparently, the servants had also gone to church; there was never a figure at the open windows; behind the house there was no stout negress in a red turban, lowering the bucket into the great shingle-hooded well.

Henry James - The Europeans