stealthy-paced

Updated: May 7, 2025

In a few minutes there entered a dapper, mild-faced, gentle-mannered, stealthy-paced man, with a thick long cloak thrown over his shoulders, to protect him from the night air. The Pope's dogana-master stood before us.

James Aitken Wylie - Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber: Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge