swealing

Updated: May 24, 2025

And then, realizing that among such his lot was thrown realizing also the dead hand that rested on his teaching and preaching his heart went down into a sea of hopelessness, and he felt the chill of despair. The gong of the chapel clock announced the hour of nine, in thin, metallic beats, and looking up, he noted the swealing tapers in the candelabra over his head.

Marshall Mather - Lancashire Idylls (1898)