tiptiltedness

Updated: May 26, 2025

It was a good straight nose, yet it had something of the pleasant tiptiltedness of a child's. It was the sort of nose which should have complemented a mouth formed for spontaneous laughter. It looked lonesome and out of place in that set and lowering countenance, to which the red straggling stubble of beard sprouting over jaws and throat lent a more sinister note.

Marie Conway Oemler - Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man