smouldery

Updated: May 18, 2025

One of the whips, a little dark fellow with smouldery eyes and sucked-in weathered cheeks, dashed out of covert, rode past, saluting, and dashed in again. A jay came out with a screech, dived, and doubled back; a hare made off across the fallow the light-brown lopping creature was barely visible against the brownish soil. Pigeons, very high up, flew over and away to the next wood.

John Galsworthy - Beyond