smoke-greased

Updated: May 13, 2025

Neither was there anything notable in the smoke-greased walls and ceiling, the miserable fire-place with one cracked kettle and a red earthen bowl, and the wretched bed of rags stuck away in one of the corners, on which evidently both the old crone and Master Jeffy made their sad pretence at sleep.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862