suspiciously-looking

Updated: May 23, 2025

The lines of ragged fences; the blackened stumps, capped with little pyramids of snow; the taller and sometimes suspiciously-looking stubs; an insulated tree, and finally the broad border of forest, were alike motionless, gloomy, and clothed in the doubtful forms of night. Still, the space around the well-secured and trebly-barred postern was vacant.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish