thrice-folded

Updated: May 7, 2025

Halsing said, for he carried the keys and could favor whom he would. That he did not favor himself was obvious from the fact that his once red face had grown an ashen gray, and the cheeks hung in visible cords and ligaments under the thrice-folded skin, the flesh between having gradually vanished.

Mary Noailles Murfree - The Story of Old Fort Loudon