skinny-armed

Updated: May 25, 2025

"We fight the Church, not its ministers." "Hear me first," she answered who had spoken before, and men turned to see standing above them in the great pulpit of the church, a fierce-eyed, yellow-toothed hag, grey-haired, skinny-armed, long-faced like a horse, and behind her two other women, each of whom held a torch in her right hand. "It is the Mare," roared the multitude.

Henry Rider Haggard - Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch