silently-curling

Updated: July 16, 2025

Shouts, cries, final words, hoarse orders from the officers a perfect babel of sounds filled the air, but the silently-curling smoke-wreaths were the only suggestion of life from that strangely indifferent form. He seemed like one so deeply absorbed in his own thoughts that he would have to be awakened as from sleep.

Edward Payson Roe - Opening a Chestnut Burr