street-strained

Updated: July 26, 2025

It was alive, and as he bent to look at it the sacking divided itself, and a small head, covered with a shock of brilliant red hair, thrust itself out, a shrewd, small face turning to look up at him slyly with deep-set black eyes. It was a human girl creature about twelve years old. "Are yer goin' to do it?" she said in a hoarse, street-strained voice.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Dawn of a To-morrow