tanned-faced

Updated: May 28, 2025

Garibaldi looked sad, and spoke to no one, but hummed some bars of Riego's hymn, the Spanish song of freedom, full of a wild, sweet pathos, to which his tanned-faced legionaries had marched under the Monte Videan sun. Could he but have had with him those strong warriors now!

Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco - The Liberation of Italy