spinster-appearing

Updated: May 8, 2025

Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife. "I smile with pleasure," he told her. "It serves only to make your valiant little shoulders the more valiant.

Jack London - On the Makaloa Mat