suburb-bound

Updated: June 21, 2025

But as the stair inexorably lowered them into the bowels of the earth he realised, only too vividly, what might happen at the foot of the descent. The evening rush of suburb-bound passengers had begun and the staircase was rather crowded.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital