steady-mouthed

Updated: June 18, 2025

There lay the roofs before him he ran his eye from the west tower past the high lantern to the delicate tracery of the eastern apse and chapels in the hands of the spoilers; and here he sat dry-eyed and steady-mouthed looking down on it, as a man looks at a wound not yet begun to smart. It was piteously clear and still.

Robert Hugh Benson - The King's Achievement