smoky-nosed

Updated: May 2, 2025

I speculated as to what it was going to do. I once saw an ant running away with a piece of cheese eight or ten times larger than itself. I could not help thinking of it, when I found the chubby, smoky-nosed tug-boat towing the Typhoon out into the Mississippi River. In the middle of the stream we swung round, the current caught us, and away we flew like a great winged bird.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - The Story of a Bad Boy