take-things-as-they-come

Updated: November 23, 2024

Then a dull, uncomplaining, take-things-as-they-come face, unwashed, never shaved the pure Indian grows a sort of dark down on his cheeks and the point of the chin, the half-breeds a slight beard all topped by the enormous hat, never missing, though often full of holes, black with dirt, weather-beaten beyond expression.

Harry Alverson Franck - Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond