slightly-dropped

Updated: May 4, 2025

Never did I see aught more horrid: there were the gracious curves of the woman's bust and hips still well preserved in a clinging dress of red cloth, very faded now; and her reddish hair floated loose in a large flimsy cloud about her; but her face, in that exposed position, had been quite eaten away by the winds to a noseless skeleton, which grinned from ear to ear, with slightly-dropped under-jaw most horrid in contrast with the body, and frame of hair.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud