snow-bitten

Updated: May 26, 2025

By-and-by, for a certainty, the man's sense of duty, the principles that had ruled him so long and ruled more men then than now, for faith was stronger would assert themselves. And he would go back to the Baltic lands, the barren, snow-bitten lands of his prime, a greyer, older, more sombre man but not an unhappy man.

Stanley John Weyman - The Wild Geese