steel-keen

Updated: June 4, 2025

Eyelids hung fat and heavy over hollow cheeks and pointed cheek-bones. Only the eye remained the sky-blue, steel-keen, hard, clear, unconquerable English eye to tell that thirty-two miles without rest, four days without a square meal, six nights for many without a stretch of sleep, still found them soldiers at the end.

G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens - From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War