storm-stained

Updated: May 9, 2025

This edifice is of brick, five stories in height, and, as has been intimated, is time-stained, storm-stained, smoke-stained and stained, it would seem, by all other conceivable causes of stain, so begrimed and dingy, yet so venerable and imposing, does it seem. This vast and ancient pile can be said to represent no order of architecture.

Edmund Flagg - Edmond Dantès