thick-banded

Updated: August 16, 2026

At length the friar stopped before a mighty door, thick-banded with iron bars and with massy bolts, and while Beltane held the torch, he fitted key to lock and thereafter the great door swung on screaming hinge and showed a dungeon beyond a place foul and noisome, where divers pale-faced wretches lay or crouched, blinking in the torch's glare.

Jeffery Farnol - Beltane the Smith