time-silvered

Updated: June 14, 2025

It would have seemed strange, had they not grown accustomed to the thought, to imagine that blind man, like a mole, or some slow slug, turning himself mysteriously in the bowels of that gray mound that time-silvered "eye-sore." When they saw him, however, he was in the shop.

Various - O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920