shrowdy

Updated: May 20, 2025

Before the tones had died away, three persons appeared upon the scaffold, a woman, pinioned and wearing a long, sharp, snowy, shrowdy, death-cap; a man in loose black robes with a white neckhandkerchief, and a burly, surly fellow, in black cloth, bareheaded, and having a curling jetty beard around his heavy jaws. It is but a moment, that, standing on tiptoe, you catch this scene.

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